Bede the Venerable, Lives of the abbots of Weremouth and Jarrow -
St Bede (born 673) was a monk, and eventually died at, Jarrow in 735.
His Lives of the Abbots, written sometime after 716, is a history both of the leaders of these important monastic communities, as well as the ecclesiastical context of the region.
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