In "De Excidio Britanniae", St. Gildas (sometimes called "The Wise"), a 6th century British monk, denounced in the most aggressive language possible, the terrible wickedness of his times. He is the only substantial source which survives from the time of the Anglo-Saxon conquest of Britain, and the best source prior to the much more impressive work of the Venerable Bede (who completed his "Ecclesiastical History of the English People" almost 200 years later, in 731).
The first page of Bede's History of the English Church and People. It begins with a decorated initial letter B (from 'Britain'). The book was made in the 800s.
The initial page of the Peterborough Chronicle.
Answer:
What did St. Gilda's write? When?
What did Bede write? When?
Who wrote The Anglo-Saxon Chronicles? When?
What is the conection between these works?
