The Importance of Study

Bead is living at a pretty tumultuous time for Celtic Christianity. There's this clash of what's standard as Roman Christianity and then the kind of older Celtic traditions. And so bead is trying to get in line with Rome by writing this history of the English people. It's not an easy sell, right? You have monks who've been living ascetic lives in parts that have been Christian longer than England. So he's kind of part of Cuthritic program from even before beads was born.