I. THE CONVERSION OF ENGLAND, IRELAND, AND SCOTLAND.
§ 7. Literature.
I. SOURCES.
GILDAS (Abbot of Bangor in Wales, the oldest British historian, in the sixth cent.) : De cxcidio Britannice conquestus, etc. A picture of the evils of Britain at the time. Best ed. by Joseph Stevenson, Lond., 1838. (English Historical Society's publications.)
NEXXIUS (Abbot of Bangor about 620): Eulogium Britannia, sive Hittoria Britonum. Ed. Stevenson, 1838.
The Works of Gildas and Nenuius transl. from the Latin by J. A. Gifc*, London, 1841.
*BEDA Venerabilis (d. 734) : Ffistoria Ecclesiasfica gentis Anglorum; in the sixth vol. of Migne's ed. of Bedae Opera Omnia, also often sepa rately published and translated into English. Best ed. by Stevenson, Lond., 1838; and by Gifr*, Lond., 1840. It is the only reliable church-history of the Anglo-Saxon period.
The AXGLO-SAXOX CHROXICLE, from the time of Caesar to 1154. A work of several successive hands, ed. by Gibson with an Engl. translation, 1823, and by Giles, 1849 (in one vol. with Bede's Ecclcs. History}.
See the Six Old English Chronicles, in Bonn's Antiquarian Library (1848); and Church Historians of England trans, by Jos. STEVEXSOX Lond. 1852-'56, 6 vols.
20 FOUETH PEKIOD. A.D. 590 TO 1049.
SIR HENRY SPELMAN (d. 1641): Concilia, decreta, leges, constitutiones in re ecclesiarum orbis Britannici, etc. Lond., 1639-'64, 2 vols. fol. (Vol. I. reaches to the Norman conquest; vol. ii. to Henry VIII ).
DAVID WILKINS (d. 1745) : Concilia Magnce Britannia et Hibernice (from 446 to 1717), Lond., 1737, 4 vols. fol. (Vol. I. from 446 to 1265).
*ARTHUR WEST HADDAN and WILLIAM STUBBS : Councils and Ecclesi astical Documents relating to Great Britain and Ireland : edited after Spelman and Wilkins. Oxford (Clarendon Press), 1869 to 78. So far 3 vols. To be continued down to the Eeformation.
The Peniten'tials of the Irish and Anglo-Saxon Churches are col lected and edited by F. KTJNSTMANN (Die Lot. Pdnitentialbucher der Angelsachsen, 1844); WASSERSCHLEBEET (Die Bussordnungen der abendland. Kirche, 1851) ; SCHMITZ (Die Bussbucher u. d. Bussdisciplin d. Kirche, 1883).
II. Historical Works, (a] The Christianization of England.
* J. USSHER (d. 1655) : Britannicarum Eccles. Antiquitates. Dublin, 1639 ; London, 1687; Works ed. by Elrington, 1847, Vols. V. and VI.
E. STILLINGFLEET (d. 1699) : Origenes Britannicce; or, the Antiqu. of the British Churches. London, 1710; Oxford, 1842; 2 vols.
J. LlNGARD (R. C., d. 1851) : The History and Antiquities of the Anglo- Saxon Church. London, 1806, new ed., 1845.
KARL SCHRODL (R. C.) : Das erste Jahrhundert der englischen Kirche. Passau & Wien, 1840.
EDWARD CHURTON (Rector of Crayke, Durham): The Early English Church. London, 1841 (new ed. unchanged, 1878).
JAMES YEOWELL : Chronicles of the Ancient British Church anterior to the Saxon era. London, 1846.
FRANCIS THACKERAY (Episcop.) : Researches into the Eccles. and Political State of Ancient Britain under the Roman Emperors. London, 1843, 2 vols.
*COU:NT DE MONTALEMBERT (R. C., d. 1870): The Monks of the West. Edinburgh and London, 1861-'79. 7 vols. (Authorized transl. from the French.) The third vol. treats of the British Isles.
REINHOLD PATJLI: Bilder aus Alt-England. Gotha, 1860.
W. F. HOOK: Lives of the Archbishops of Canterbury. London, 2nd ed., 1861 sqq.
G. F. MACLEAR (D.D.. Head-master of King's College School) : Conver sion of the West. The English. London, 1878. By the same: The Kelts, 1878. (Popular.)
WILLIAM BRIGHT (Dr. and Prof, of Eccles. Hist., Oxford) : Chapters on Early English Church History. Oxford, 1878 (460 pages).
JOH^PRYCE: History of the Ancient British CJmrch. Oxford, 1878.
EDWARD L. CUTTS : Turning Points of English Church- History. London, 1878.
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DUGALD MAcCoLL : Early British Church. The Arthurian Legends. In "The Catholic Presbyterian," London and New York, for 1880, No. 3, pp. 176 sqq.
(b] The Christianization of Ireland, Wales, and Scotland.
DR. LANIGAN (II. C.) : Ecclesiastical History of Ireland- Dublin, 1829.
WILLIAM G. TODD (Episc., Trinity Coll., Dublin) : The Church of St. Patrick: An Historical Inquiry into the Independence of the Ancient Church of Ireland. London, 1844. By the same: A History of the Ancient Church of Ireland. London, 1845. By the same: Book of Hymns of the Ancient Church of Ireland. Dublin, 1855.
FERDINAND WALTER : Das alte Wales. Bonn, 1859.
Joux CUNNINGHAM (Presbyterian) : The Church History of Scotland from the Commencement of the Cliristian Era to the Present Day. Edinburgh, 1859, 2 vok. (Vol. I., chs. 1-6).
C. INNES : Sketches of Early Scotch History, and Social Progress. Edinb. , 1861. (Refers to the history of local churches, the university and home-life in the mediaeval period.)
THOMAS MCLAUCHLAN (Presbyt): The Early Scottish Church: the Ec clesiastical History of Scotland from the First to the Twelfth Century. Edinburgh, 1865.
*Dii. J. H. A. EBRARD: Die iroschottische Missionskirche des 6, 7 und 8
ten Jahrh., und ihre Vcrbreitung auf dem Festland. Giitersloh, 1873.
Comp. Ebrard's articles Die culdeische Kirche des 6, 7 und Sten
Jahrh, in Niedner's " Zeitschrift fur hist. Theologie" for 1862 and
1863.
Ebrard and McLauchlan are the ablest advocates of the anti- Romish and alleged semi-Protestant character of the old Keltic church of Ireland and Scotland ; but they present it in a more favor able light than the facts warrant.
*DR. W. D. KILLEN (Presbyt.) : The Ecclesiastical History of Ireland from the Earliest Period to the Present Times. London, 1875, 2 vols.
*ALEX. PENROSE FORBES (Bishop of Brechin, d. 1875): Kalendars of Scottish Saints. With Personal Notices of those of Alba, Laudonia and Stratchclyde. Edinburgh (Edmonston & Douglas), 1S72. By the same: Lives of S. Ninian and S. Kentigern. Compiled in the twelfth century. Ed. from the best MSS. Edinburgh, 1874.
*WiLLiAM REEVES (Canon of Armagh): Life of St. Columba, Founder of Hy. Written by Adamnan, ninth Abbot of that monastery. Edinburgh, 1874.
*WILLIAM F. SKENE: Keltic Scotland. Edinburgh, 2 vols., 1876, 1877.
*F. E. WARREN (Fellow of St. John's Coll., Oxford) : The Liturgy and Ritual of the Celtic Church. Oxford 1881 (291 pp.).
F. LOOFS : Antiqux Britonum Scotorunique ecdesix moves, ratio crcdcndi,
vivendi, etc. Lips., 1882.