The Reckoning of Time

De temporum ratione

Written in 725, probably in In Gyrwum (now Jarrow, England).

How to reckon time and find the date of Easter, with a chronicle of the world.

Treatise · first written in Latin · a major work

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How we know the date and place

Date written sure: He gives the present year as 725 (chs. 49, 52 and 58; Wallis, Bede: The Reckoning of Time, 1999)
Place written probable: Bede lived all his life from the age of seven in the monastery of Wearmouth and Jarrow, and he says so (Ecclesiastical History 5.24)