In this short reading, students will see the introduction of the "AD" and "BC" chronological systems, a schema that the Venerable Bede used for the first time in Western civilization in this text. The Venerable Bede spent nearly his entire life in a monastery. He was born around the year AD 673 and died in 735, having spent all his years at Jarrow, located in northeastern England in a kingdom known as Northumbria. The Venerable Bede is most famous for one book, a work of history called The Eccle