Hello and welcome to the Thinking Fellows podcast. My name is Caleb Keith, and today I am joined by Scott Keith, the venerable Francisco, and Bruce Hillman.

To talk about the venerable bead this time, of which I don't know very much, but Bruce has been excited for weeks to talk about. I do know that this is

in England, that we're in England today, baby. We're, we're outside of continental Europe.

We're on an island. And that's, that's all I know, Bruce. So you're going to have to take it

from here, basically. But Thinking Fellows is part of the 1517 podcast network of shows.

You can go to 1517.org slash podcasts to see all of our shows there.

All right.

So, Bruce, we're, we've been doing a series.

We've been reading books that people probably haven't read who are listeners to the Thinking Fellows. I think the

exception to that was our Augustine that we did, but we're now in, we've been doing sort of middle

ages, medieval theology, which is probably where we're really able to pull out things people haven't read before.

And the venerable bead, I'm going to guess, is on that list.

So walk us through.

Why are we reading this today?

Or why should people consider reading the bead?

Well, there's kind of two well-known works by Beed.

Beed has many, many works.

He has shelves of library books that actually have come down to us.

So he was a very prolific writer.

He wrote commentaries.

He wrote poems.

He wrote songs.

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