St Peter’s Church, Monkwearmouth (1,2)St Paul’s Monastery, Jarrow (3,4)The twin monastery of St Pe
St Peter’s Church, Monkwearmouth (1,2)St Paul’s Monastery, Jarrow (3,4)The twin monastery of St Peter (Monkwearmouth) and St Paul (Jarrow) lies near the mouths of the rivers Wear and Tyne. It was established in the seventh century by Benedict Biscop and by the early eighth century was an internationally renowned centre of learning with one of the most important libraries and scriptoria of its time.It was also a home for the famous Venerable Bede (…) a well-educated polymath. He not only wrote the sole contemporary history (as opposed to chronicle) of Anglo-Saxon times, he also wrote tracts on astronomy and mathematics as well as chronology. His use of Anno Domini (AD) was so successful that it overrode all other dating systems to become the one used until this day. image source x (and more info) -- source link
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