This newest volume in a long-running work of mapping the sources of Anglo-Saxon literary culture in England from 500 to 1100 CE takes up one of the most important authors of the period, the eighth-century monk-scholar known as the Venerable Bede.

Each entry, in this case, the individual works by Bede, have an introduction, and encylopaedic references to:1) the critical edition(s) in which the work is found (e.g. CPL or CCSL)2) extant manuscripts3) occurrences in lists by near-contemporaries, such as Alcuin, to show early circulation4) citations or references within Anglo-Saxon verse5) quotations or citations in later authors (such as Alcuin, Boniface).This is typically followed by a summary of the content of the work, and how later Anglo-Saxon authors used the material. Cross-references are provided to other articles in the encyclopaedia dealing with these other works and authors.