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Primary Sources

On-line Resource Bede: The Life and Miracles of St. Cuthbert, Bishop of Lindesfarne (721) (Medieval Sourcebook)
On-line Resource George Forrest Browne [1833-1930], Lessons from English Church HistoryGeorge Forrest Browne [1833-1930], Lessons from English Church History. Three Lectures. London: SPCK, 1893. Hbk. pp.115. View in PDF format pdf [This material is in the Public Domain]
On-line Resource George Forrest Browne [1833-1930], The Christian Church in These Islands Before the Coming of AugustineGeorge Forrest Browne [1833-1930], The Christian Church in These Islands Before the Coming of Augustine. Three Lectures Delivered at St. Paul's in January 1894, 2nd edn.London: SPCK, 1895. Hbk. pp.156. View in PDF format pdf [This material is in the Public Domain]
On-line Resource Charles Thomas Cruttwell [1847-1911], The Saxon Church and the Norman ConquestCharles Thomas Cruttwell [1847-1911], The Saxon Church and the Norman Conquest. London: Methuen & Co., 1909. Hbk. pp.268. View in PDF format pdf [This material is in the Public Domain]
Book or monograph William Dugdale & R. Dodsworth, Monasticon Anglicanum, or the History of the Ancient Abbies and Other Monastries, Hospitals, Cathedral and Collegiate Churches in England and Wales, 6 Vols. London: 1817-1830. Gregg International, 1970. Hbk. ISBN: 0576785377.
On-line Resource Henry Gee [1858-1938] & John William Hardy [1857-1919], Documents Illustrative of English Church HistoryHenry Gee [1858-1938] & John William Hardy [1857-1919], Documents Illustrative of English Church History, Compiled from Original Sources. London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1921. Hbk. pp.670. View in PDF format pdf [This material is in the Public Domain]
Book or monograph Arthur W. Haddan & William Stubbs, eds. Councils and Ecclesiastical Documents Relating to Great Britian and Ireland, 3 Vols. London, 1869-1873. Reprinted Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1965. Hbk. ISBN: 0198213352.
On-line Resource William Holden Hutton [1860-1930], An Elementary History of the Church in Great BritainWilliam Holden Hutton [1860-1930], An Elementary History of the Church in Great Britain. Oxford Church Text Books. London: Rivingtons, 1899. Hbk. pp.99. View in PDF format pdf [This material is in the Public Domain]
Book or monograph Tate: The Parish ChestWilliam E. Tate, The Parish Chest. A Study of the Records of Parochial Administration in England, 3rd edn. Phillimore & Co Ltd., 1983. ISBN: 0850335078. pp.400.

Secondary Sources

Book or monograph Maurice Wilmore Barley & R.P.C. Hanson, eds. Christianity in Britain: 300-700. Papers presented to the conference on Christianity in Roman and Sub-Human and Sub-Human Britain held at the University of Nottingham, 17-20 April, 1967. Leicester: Leicester University Press, 1968. Hbk. ISBN: 0718510771. pp.221.
Book or monograph Frank Barlow, The English Church: 1000-1066. A Constitutional History. London: Longman, 1963. Hbk. ISBN: 0582502357. pp.324.
Book or monograph Ludwig Bieler, Ireland, Harbinger of the Middle Ages, 2nd edn. London & New York : Oxford University Press, 1966. pp.148.
Book or monograph Brooke: The English Church and Papacy from the Conquest to the Reign of JohnZachary Nugent Brooke, The English Church and Papacy from the Conquest to the Reign of John. Cambridge: Cambridge Univerisyt Press, 1989. Pbk. ISBN: 0521366879. pp.288.
Book or monograph Art Cosgrove, ed., A New Oxford History of Ireland: II – Medieval Ireland 1169-1534. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993.
Book or monograph Henry Cotton, Fasti Ecclesiæ Hibernicæ – The Succession of the Prelates and Members of the Cathedral Bodies in Ireland: Volume III, The Province of Ulster. Dublin: Hodges and Smith, 1849. pp. ix + 141.
Book or monograph Liam de Paor, St. Patrick's World: The Christian Culture of Ireland's Apostolic Age. Notre Dame, IN, 1993.
Book or monograph Nora Kershaw Chadwick, ed. Studies in the Early British Church. Cambridge, 1958. Reprinted: Shoe String P, US, 1989. Hbk. ISBN: 0208013156.
Book or monograph Christopher R. Cheney, English Bishops' Chanceries: 1100-1250. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1950. Hbk. ISBN: 0719012066.
Book or monograph George G. Coulton, Five Centuries of Religion. Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought, 4 Vols. Cambridge, 1923-1950. Reprinted: Octagon Books, US, 1980. Hbk. ISBN: 0374919232.
Book or monograph Samuel J. Crawford, Anglo-Saxon Influence on Western Christendom: 600-800. Oxford, 1933. Repinted: Speculum Historiale, 1966. Hbk. ISBN: 0904676021.
Book or monograph Claire Cross, Church and People: 1450-1600. The Triumph of the Laity in the English Church, 2nd edn. Blackwell, 1999. Pbk. ISBN: 0631214674. pp.264.
Book or monograph Edward L. Cutts, Parish Priests and their People in the Middle Ages in England. London: SPCK, 1914. pp. xviii + 579.
Book or monograph Margaret Deanesly, The Pre-Conquest Church in England. An Ecclesiastical History of England, 2nd edn., Vol. 1. London: Black, 1963. Hbk. ISBN: 0713601906.
Book or monograph Arthur G. Dickens, The English Reformation, 2nd edn. London: B T Batsford, 1991. Pbk. ISBN: 0713469242. pp.461.
Book or monograph John C. Dickenson, The Later Middle Ages from the Norman Conquest to the Eve of the Reformation. An Ecclesiastical History of England. London: A & C Black, 1979. Hbk. ISBN: 0713619481. pp.544.
Book or monograph Jeffrey H. Denton, English Royal Free Chapels: 1100-1300. A Constitutional Study. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1970. Hbk. ISBN: 0719004055. pp.190.
Book or monograph Dobson: Church and Society in the Medieval North of EnglandR.B. Dobson, Church and Society in the Medieval North of England. London: Hambledon and London Ltd, 1996. Hbk. ISBN: 1852851201. pp.288.
Book or monograph Eleanor Shipley Duckett, Anglo-Saxon Saints and Scholars. New York & London, 1947. Reprinted: Shoe String Press, US, 1983. Hbk. ISBN: 0208002006.
Book or monograph Boris Ford, ed., Cambridge Cultural History: Volume II, Medieval Britain. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992.
Book or monograph Richard Gameson, Saint Augustine of Canterbury. Canterbury Sources, 1998. Pbk. ISBN: 0950139211.
Book or monograph Vincent Gillespie, ‘Cura Pastoralis in Deserto’, De Cella in Seculum: Religious and Secular Life and Devotion in Late Medieval England, Michael Sargent, ed. Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 1989. Hbk. ISBN: 085991268X. pp.161-81.
Book or monograph John Godfrey, The Church in Anglo-Saxon England. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1962. Hbk. ISBN: 0521050898.
Book or monograph Rose Graham, English Ecclesiastical Studies. Being Some Essays in Research in Medieval History. London, 1929.
Book or monograph Aubrey Gwynn & R. Neville Hadcock, Medieval Religious Houses – Ireland. London: Longman, 1970.
Book or monograph Roy Martin Haines, The Church and Politics in Fourteenth-century England. The Career of Adam Orleton: C.1275-1345. Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought, 3rd series, Vol. 10. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1978. Hbk. ISBN: 0521215447.
Book or monograph Reginald A.R. Hartridge, A History of Vicarages in the Middle Ages. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1930. pp. x + 273. Reprinted New York, 1968.
Book or monograph Peter Heath, English Parish Clergy on the Eve of the Reformation. Studies in Social History. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1969. Hbk. ISBN: 0710062168. pp.268.
Book or monograph Dom David Knowles, The Religious Orders in England, Volumes I-III. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1948, 1955, & 1959.
Book or monograph David Knowles & R. Neville Hadcock, Medieval Religious Houses: England and Wales. London: Longman, 1971.
Book or monograph Larence: The English Church and the Papacy in the Middle AgesClifford H. Lawrence, ed. The English Church and the Papacy in the Middle Ages, revised. Sutton Publishing, 1999. Pbk. ISBN: 0750919477. pp.259.
Book or monograph Wilhelm Levinson, England and the Continent in the Eighth Century, 1948. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998. Hbk. ISBN: 0198212321. pp.355.
On-line Resource Joseph Barber Lightfoot [1828-1889], Leaders in the Northern ChurchJoseph Barber Lightfoot [1828-1889], Leaders in the Northern Church. Sermons Preached in the Diocese of Durham, 2nd edn.. London: MacMillan & Co., 1899. Hbk. pp.221. View in PDF format pdf [This material is in the Public Domain]
Book or monograph John Lingard, History and Antiquities of the Anglo-Saxon Church, Containing an Account of its Origin, Government, Doctrines, Worship, Revenues and Clerical and Monastic Institutions, 2 Vols. London, 1845.
Book or monograph Francis Donald Logan, Excommunication and the Secular Arm in Medieval England. A Study in Legal Procedure from the Thirteenth to the Sixteenth Century. Pontificial Institute of Medieval Studies. Studies and Texts, 15. Toronto, 1968.
Book or monograph Logan: A History of the Church in the Middle AgesF. Donald Logan, A History of the Church in the Middle Ages. London & New York: Routledge, 2002. Pbk. ISBN: 0415132894. pp.51-69.
On-line Resource George Frederick Maclear [1833-1902], A History of Christian Missions During the Middle Ages. Cambridge & London: MacMillan & Co, 1863. Hbk. pp.466. [This material is in the Public Domain]
Book or monograph Harting: The Coming of Christianity in Anglo-Saxon EnglandHenry Mayr-Harting, The Coming of Christianity in Anglo-Saxon England, 3rd edn. Penn State University Press, 1991. Pbk. ISBN: 0271007699. pp.354.
Book or monograph Edward Miller, The Abbey and Bishoppric of Ely. The Social History of an Ecclesiastical Estate from the 10th Century to the Early 14th Century. Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought, 1. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1951. pp. xii + 313.
Book or monograph John R.H. Moorman, Church Life in England in the Thirteenth Century. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1945. pp. xxviii + 444.
Book or monograph Morrman: A History of the Church in EnglandJohn R.H. Moorman, A History of the Church in England, 3rd edn. Morehouse, 1986. Pbk. ISBN: 081921406X. pp.485.
On-line Resource [Thomas Stanley] R[oger Benn] Littledale Palmer [1889-1948], English Monasteries in the Middle Ages. An Outline of Monastic Architecture and Custom from the Conquest to the Suppression[Thomas Stanley] R[oger Benn] Littledale Palmer [1889-1948], English Monasteries in the Middle Ages. An Outline of Monastic Architecture and Custom from the Conquest to the Suppression. London: Constable and Company Ltd., 1930. Hbk. pp.233. View in PDF format pdf [This material is in the Public Domain]
Book or monograph William Abel Pantin, The English Church in the Fourteenth Century. Mediaeval Academy of America Reprints for Teaching, No. 5. University of Toronto Press Inc., 1980. Pbk. ISBN: 0802064116. pp.291.
On-line Resource M.W. Patterson [1873-1944], A History of the Church of England. London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1929. Hbk. pp.457.
Book or monograph Conrad Pepler, O.P., The English Religious Heritage,. London: Blackfriars Publications, 1958.
Book or monograph Walter Alison Phillips, ed., History of the Church of Ireland from the Earliest Times to the Present Day: Volume II, the Movement towards Rome, the Medieval Church and the Reformation. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1934.
On-line Resource Alfred Plummer [1841-1926], The Churches in Britain Before A.D. 1000, 2 VolsAlfred Plummer [1841-1926], The Churches in Britain Before A.D. 1000, 2 Vols. London: Robert Scott, 1911. Hbk. pp.205+264. View in PDF format pdf [This material is in the Public Domain]
Book or monograph Herbert Maynard Smith, Pre-Reformation England. London, 1938. Reprinted: London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1963. pp.xv + 556.
Book or monograph Stenton: Anglo-Saxon EnglandFrank M. Stenton, Anglo-Saxon England. The Oxford History of England, 2, 3rd edn. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001. Pbk. ISBN: 0192801392. pp.123, 132-45.
Book or monograph William R.W. Stephens & W. Hunt, History of the English Church, 9 Vols. London, 1899-1910.
Book or monograph R.L. Storey, Diocesan Administration in the Fifteenth Century. St. Anthony's Press, 1972. Hbk. ISBN: 0900701366.
Book or monograph Charles Thomas, Christianity in Roman Britain to AD 500. London: Routledge, an imprint of Taylor & Francis Books Ltd., 1999. Hbk. ISBN: 0415166349.
Book or monograph Alexander Hamilton Thompson, The English Clergy and their Organisation in the Late Middle Ages. Oxford, 1966.
Book or monograph Maura Walsh & Dáibhi Ó Cróinín, eds., Cummain's Letter De controversia Paschali, Together with Related Irish Computiscal Tract De Ratione Computandi. Toronto, 1988.
Article in Journal or Book Benedicta Ward, "Bede and the Conversion of the Anglo-Saxons," Word and Spirit 7 (1985): 34-46.
Book or monograph Watt: The Church in Medieval IrelandJohn Watt, The Church in Medieval Ireland, The Gill History of Ireland 5. Dublin: University College Dublin Press, 1998. Pbk. ISBN: 190062110X. pp.288.
Book or monograph Kathleen L. Wood-Leigh, Perpetual Chantries in Britain. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1965. pp. xiii + 357.
Book or monograph John Robert Wright, The Church and the English Crown: 1305-1334. A Study Based on the Register of Archbishop Walter Reynolds. Studies and Texts, 48. Toronto, 1980.

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