St. Bede
673 – 735
English

Priest, monk, author, and saint. He wrote in Latin on a multitude of subjects including sermons, saints' lives, Biblical commentaries, hymns, language, and natural history. His best-known work was The Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum (Ecclesiastical History of the English People), which covers more than church history and is an invaluable source.

Contemporaries
fl. c. 625–c. 706Wu Zetian
fl. c. 700–c. 750Sankara
700–762Li Po
602–680Muawiyah I
680–741Leo III
?–700St. Giles
712–770Du Fu
613–678Aishah