The Outstanding Culture Representative Of England In The Early Middle Ages

The first mass migration of the German’s peoples was actually a strike andchallenge of the nomadic tribes who were still in the heroic age, against the moreadvanced agricultural civilization. However, the so called “advanced” agriculturalcivilization was powerless to react against this strike and was at a loss in the face ofsuch challenge. As the Western Roman Empire that used to be powerful andprosperous in the past had already lost military strength and political cohesion duringthe strike of the Germanic peoples, it eventually didn’t manage to escape from its fateof falling. The fall of the Western Roman Empire had shocked the wholeMediterranean, and was a symbol for the termination of the Classical Civilization andthe initial split of the Mediterranean. Just when the Classical Civilization was on theedge of disappearing from the Western Continental Europe, a monk named Bede faraway at the border of the empire, devoted his whole life to spreading the Christianculture and the classical culture originated from Ireland and the Western ContinentalEurope, and left behind the civilization through his wisdom for the cominggenerations to benefit from, which laid a foundation for the development of theculture in England and even the civilization of the whole Europe.Bede is the first outstanding scholar known in the history of Great Britain, andhis great attainments in history, theology, Latin, chronology and many other fieldsgained him the title of “The Father of English Culture”. As for the people nowadays,Bede is more known as “The Father of English History”, while during the age he livedin, he was more known for his theology-related commentaries. Based on a few ofBede’s books on history, theology and natural science and by reference to the researchresults currently available from the scholars both at home and abroad, this article aimsto present to you the contributions made by Bede to the spread of history, naturalscience and theology and an objective comparison between the true Bede and the onewe know from the history. On the two basses of reality and history, this article tries to,from the aspect of the civilization history, expound the roles played by Bede in thedevelopment of the culture in England and even the civilization of Europe. It can besummarized from the information currently available that, Bede is the main teller ofthe England culture, and his lectures and writings had popularized the culture andpromoted the academic development in England, due to which, the rest of Europe wasleft far behind and England became an important symbol of the Western Europeduring the600s and the700s. In the meanwhile of gradually joining the mainstreamof the western Christian culture, England also brought a profound influence on thedevelopment of the culture in the Western Continental Europe.