Bede+vs+Monks

Born in a small town in England, Bede, the author of //The History of the English Church and People//, was the first person to really write a written record of English history and he is therefore called "the father of English history." He wrote everything in Latin and based all of his works on the culture and the stories passed down orally from generation to generation, because he had no real written works to base his ideas on.

The monks based their //Anglo-Saxon Chronicle// on Bede's work, adding more details like dates and specific battles, and they also translated it from Latin to English. They could use Bede's work to their advantage because Latin was such a universal language, and they were able to use his works to show everybody else in Britain that there were educated people in Britain.