<P> Listed chronologically, by author's death . Dates represent the historical period covered by the work (s). Works and authors listed are not exhaustive . These are the major and most significant historians and chroniclers of the period . </P> <Ol> <Li> Gildas, On the Ruin of Britain (De Excidio Britanniae) (died 570) </Li> <Li> Bede, Ecclesiastical History of the English People (Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum) AD 1 - 731 </Li> <Li> History of Britain (Historia Brittonum) 809 (attributed to Nennius, perhaps falsely) </Li> <Li> Asser, Life of King Alfred 893 </Li> <Li> Annales Cambriae, Annals of Wales 447 - 954 (c. 970) </Li> <Li> Æthelweard, Chronicle AD 1 - 975 </Li> </Ol> <Li> Gildas, On the Ruin of Britain (De Excidio Britanniae) (died 570) </Li> <Li> Bede, Ecclesiastical History of the English People (Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum) AD 1 - 731 </Li>

Much of the early history of england was written by monks