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| | de Beda Venerabilis Bede c 672 672 May 25 May... |
 | | Interestingly, Bede wrote that the Earth was round Earth was round "like a playground ball", contrasting that with being "round like a shield". |
 | | The most important and best known of his works is the "Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum," ("The Ecclesiastical History of the English People") giving in five books the history of England, ecclesiastical and political, from the time of Caesar to the date of its completion (731 731). |
 | | The first twenty-one chapters, treating of the period before the mission of Augustine, are compiled from earlier writers such as Orosius Orosius, Gildas Gildas, Prosper of Aquitaine Prosper of Aquitaine, the letters of Pope Gregory I Pope Gregory I, and others, with the insertion of legends and traditions. |
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