Bede, an erudite English Benedictine scholar, composes a summary of the works of Roman naturalists and writes around forty treatises on practically every area of knowledge, including grammar, orthography, metrics, figures of speech, chronology, theology, and history.

He had in 731  completed his most important work, the reliable and perceptive “Ecclesiastical History of the English People.”

On his deathbed in 735, Bede reputedly dictates a translation of the Gospel of St. John into English.