The Christian Church in
Anglo-Saxon England (449-1066 A.D.)
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Albertson, Clinton. Anglo-Saxon Saints and Heroes.
Bronx, NY: Fordham University Press, 1967. 347p. St. Cuthbert, Wilfrid,
St. Guthlac, St. Benedict Biscop, Ceolfrith, St. Willibrord and St. Boniface.
BX4659 .G7 A5
Alcock, Leslie. Arthur's Britain: History and Archaeology
AD 367-634. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1971. Early Christianity in
Britain," pp.132-136; "The Conversion of the English" pp.307-310.
DA152 .A7 1972
Bede. A History of the English Church and People.
Revised Edition. Baltimore: Penguin Books, 1968. 364p.
BR746 .B5 1968b
Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People.
Edited by Bertram Colgrave and R. A. B. Mynors. Oxford: Clarendon Press,
1969. 618p.
BR746 .B5 1969
The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Anglo-Saxon England.
Edited by Michael Lapidge and others. Malden, MA and Oxford, UK: Blackwell,
1999. Articles on Christianity and Christians appear throughout the book.
Ref. DA152 .B58 1999
Blair, Peter Hunter. An Introduction to Anglo-Saxon England.
Second Edition. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1977.
Chapter 3, "The Church," pp.116-193,365.
DA152.2 .B55 1977
Blair, Peter Hunter. Northumbria in the Days of Bede.
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1976. 254p.
DA670 .N813 B54
Blair, Peter Hunter. The World of Bede. New York:
St. Martin's Press, 1971. 340p.
PR1578 .B6 1971
Brown, George Forrest. Theodore and Wilfrith. London:
Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1897. 303p.
BR749 .B8
Brown, George Forrest. The Venerable Bebe. London:
Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1887. 192p.
PR1578 .B76 1887
Bruce, F. F. The Spreading Flame. Grand Rapids, MI:
Wm. B. Eerdmans, 1958. Chapter XXXVI, "Early British Christianity,"
pp.353-362; Chapter XXXVII, "Beyond the Roman Wall," pp.363-370;
Chapter XXXIX, "The Iona Community," pp.384-395; Chapter XL, "Evangelizing
the English," pp.396-403; Chapter XLI, "England Takes Up the Touch,"
pp.404-418.
BR165 .B715 1958
Campbell, James, Eric John, and Patrick Wormald. The Anglo-Saxons.
Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1982. Chapter 3, "The First Christian
Kings," pp.45-69; Chapter 4, "The Age of Bede and Aethelbald,"
pp.70-100; Chapter 5, "The Age of Offa and Alcuin," pp.101-128.
Bibliography, pp.258-266.
DA152 .C28 1982
Cavill, Paul. Anglo-Saxon Christianity. London: Fount/HarperCollins,
1999. 211 p.
BR742 .C38 1999
Cunliffe, Barry. Wessex to AD 1000. London and New
York: Longman, 1993. "The Church," pp.312-318; "The Monastic
Revival," pp.318-319; "From Minsters to Parish Churches,"
pp.319-320.
DA670 .W48 C86 1993
Deanesly, Margaret. The Pre-conquest Church in England.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1961. 374p. Bibliography, pp.355-358.
BR748 .D4 1961
Duckett, Eleanor S. Alcuin, Friend of Charlemagne: His
World and His Work. New York: Macmillan, 1951. 337p. Bibliography, pp.319-328.
LB125 .A4 D8
Duckett, Eleanor Shipley. The Gateway to the Middle Ages.
New York: Macmillan, 1938. Chapter VII, "A Picture of Britain,"
pp.312-357.
D121 .D8
Edwards, David L. Christian England: Its Story to the
Reformation. New York: Oxford University Press, 1980. Chapter 1, "Prelude:
Romans and Celts," pp.13-43; Chapter 2, "The Conversion of England,"
pp.44-73; Chapter 3, "The Anglo-Saxon Achievement," pp.74-104.
"Further Reading," pp.105-106.
BR746 .E38
Fitzsimons, Matthew Anthony. The Past Recaptured: Great
Historians and the History of History. Notre Dame, IN: University of
Notre Dame Press, 1983. Chapter 5, "Bede: Monastic Historian in a Barbarian
World," pp.72-88.
D14 .F57 1983
Godfrey, John. The Church in Anglo-Saxon England.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1962. 529p.
BR749 .G6
Hanning, Robert W. The Vision of History in Early Britain:
From Gildas to Geoffrey of Monmouth. New York: Columbia University Press,
1966. Chapter 3, "Bede's 'Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum: Brittannia
Renovata,'" pp.63-90.
DA1 .H33
Hardinge, Leslie. Beliefs and Practices of the Celtic
Chruch in Britain. London: University of London, 1963. 291p. Ph.D. Thesis.
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BR748 .H37 1963
Hardinge, Leslie. The Celtic Church in Britain. London:
S.P.C.K. for the Church Historical Society, 1972. 265p. Bibliography, pp.235-257.
BR748 .H37 1972
Harrison, Kenneth. The Framework of Anglo-Saxon History
to A.D. 900. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1976. Chapter 3,
"The Easter Tables of Dionysius," pp.30-51; Chapter 4, "The
Christian Era in Britain," pp.52-75, Chapter 5, "Bede's History,"
pp.76-98.
DA129.5 .H37
Hill, David. An Atlas of Anglo-Saxon England. Toronto:
University of Toronto Press, 1981. "The Church," pp144-166.
Ref. G1812.21 .S2 H5 1981
Howe, Nicholas. Migration and Mythmaking in Anglo-Saxon
England. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1989. Chapter 4, "Conversion
and Return: From Island to Continent," pp.108-142.
PR179 .M53 H68 1989
Jones, Charles W. "Bede." In Volume 2. Editor in
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Ref. D114 .D5 1982 v.2
Knowles, David. Saints and Scholars: Twenty-five Medieval
Portraits. Cambridge: Cambridge Uiversity Press, 1962. Chapter 2, "Bede
the Venerable," pp.12-18; Chapter 3, "Three Monastic Founders:
Dunstan, Ethelwold and Oswald," pp.19-22.
BR754 .A1 K57
Lapidge, Michael. "Monasticism." In The Blackwell
Encyclopedia of Anglo-Saxon England. Edited by Michael Lapidge and others.
Malden, MA and Oxford, UK: Blackwell, 1999. Pp.320-322.
Ref. DA152 .B58 1999
Mayr-Harting, Henry. The Coming of Christianity to Anglo-Saxon
England. Third Edition. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University
Press, 1991. 334p.
BR749 .M42 1991
Mitton, Michael. The Soul of Celtic Spirituality In the
Lives of Its Saints. Mystic, CT: Twenty-Third Publications, 1996. 148p.
BR748 .M58 1996
Moorman, John R. H. A History of the Church in England.
Third Edition. Harrisburg, PA: Morehouse, 1980. Chapter I, "The Church
in Britain Before 597," pp.3-11; Chapter II, "The Conversion of
England(597-664)," pp.12-22; Chapter III, "Consolidation and Advance(664-793),"
pp.23-36; Chapter IV, "Chaos and Reconstruction (793-988)," pp.37-46;
Chapter V, "The Eve of the Conquest (988-1066)," pp.47-56.
BR743 .M6 1980
Morris, John. The Age of Arthur: A History of the British
Isles from 350 to 650. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1973. Chapter
Nine," Christian Ireland," pp.164-176; Chapter Eighteen, "The
Fifth Century Church," pp.335-355; Chapter Nineteen, "Sixth Century
Monks," pp.356-388; Chapter Twenty, "The Seventh Century Church,"
pp.389-405.
DA145 .M56
Rosenthal, Joel T. Angles, Angels and Conquerors.
"The Borzoi History of England, Volume 1: 400-1154." New York:
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DA26 .B65 v.1
Sawyer, P. H. From Roman Britain to Norman England.
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1978. "The Conversion of the English,"
pp.91-98; Chapter VII, "The Church and Society," pp.234-249.
DA152 .S28 1978
Thacker, Alan. "Cuthbert, St." In The Blackwell
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Ref. DA152 .B58 1999
Webb, J. F., editor and translator. Lives of the Saints:
The Voyage of St. Brendan, Bede: Life of Cuthbert, and Eddius Stephanus:
Life of Wilfrid. Baltimore: Penguin Books, 1965. 206p.
BX4659 .G7 W43
Wormald, Patrick. "The Venerable Bede and the 'Church
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BX5005 .E54 1992
Backhouse, Janet. "The Making of England." History Today 41 (November 1991): 7-12. Anglo-Saxon England. Illus.
Bryant, W. N. "Bede of Jarrow." History Today 19 (June 1969): 373-381,439. Illus.
Hassall, W. O. "Bede's Life of St. Cuthbert." British History Illustrated 5 (February/March 1979): 32-36. Illus.
Huntley, Dana. "The Venerable Bede at Jarrow." British Heritage 24 (November 2003): 46-51. Illus.
Kirby, D. P. "Bede, Eddius Stephanus and the 'Life of Wilfrid'." English Historical Review 98 (January 1983): 101-114.
Miller, M. "Bede's Use of Gildas." English Historical Review 90 (April 1975): 241-261.
Mitchell, Barbara. "Anglo-Saxon Double Monasteries." History Today 45 (October 1995): 33-39. Illus.
Reed, David. "The Holy Isle." British Heritage 10 (October/November 1989): 26-33. Illus. The island of Lindisfarne.
Sharp, Chris. "St. Cuthbert's Way." British Heritage 22 (October/November 2001): 46-53. Illus.
Tatton-Brown, Tim. "The Images of St. Dunstan." History Today 38 (April 1988): 36-39. Illus. Dunstan was an Archbishop of Canterbury.
Bede: Internet Sites
http://www.cohums.ohio-state.edu/history/people/crisp.23/bede.htm
Bede Net
http://bede.net
Bede's World: The Museum of Early Medieval Northumbria at Jarrow
http://www.bedesworld.co.uk/index.htm
The Development of Christian Society in Early England
http://www.britannia.com/church/bond1.html
Early Christianity in England and Wales
http://www.britainexpress.com/History/Early_Christian_Britain.htm
The Ecole Glossary: Synod of Whitby
http://cedar.evansville.edu/~ecoleweb/glossary/whitbysyn.html
The Ecole Glossary: The Venerable Bede
http://cedar.evansville.edu/~ecoleweb/glossary/bede.html
The Lindisfarne Gospels
http://www.bl.uk/diglib/treasures/lindisfarne.html
Lindisfarne Information Pages
http://www.lindisfarne.org.uk/general/index.htm
Orthodox Christianity in the British Isles
http://www.nireland.com/orthodox/history.html
Saxon Churches in Britain: An Introduction
http://britannia.com/church/saxchurch/index.html
Venerable Bede: Ecclesiastical History
http://www.ocf.org/OrthodoxPage/reading/St.Pachomius/bede.html
Memorable Leaders in Christian History: Bede (c.673-735).
Video. 26 minutes.
Circulation Desk VTR BR748 .M46 1999 no.2
Memorable Leaders in Christian History: Lindisfarne and
the Lindisfarne Gospels. Video. 26 minutes.
Circulation Desk VTR BR748 .M46 1999 no.5