Question

Read the following excerpt from the Venerable Bede's An Ecclesiastical History of the English People. In this excerpt, The author describes a period just after the Britons had repelled attacks by the Picts, a tribe of invaders from the north. Which lines most closely illustrate how Bede's religion influenced his view of events?

Answer 1

The passage is quite long but the part that most illustrates that Bede let his religious convictions influence his writing is this:

"yet, those that survived, could not be recalled from the spiritual death, which they had incurred through their sins, either by the death of their friends, or the fear of death. Whereupon, not long after, a more severe vengeance for their fearful crimes fell upon the sinful nation."

Here the language of the Christian priest is evident with the use of phrases such as spiritual death and the punishment for what the "incurred through their sins". All of these represent and are evidence of a Christian viewpoint.