Introductions

Theology on the Web provides free access to thousands of theological books and articles to over 2.5 million visitors a year. Please support our Go Fund Me Campaign to cover the cost of our webserver so that this service can remain free of charge. Click here for more details.

Courses

Church History I – Dr. Gerald Bray. BiblicalTraining.org. Cost: Free.

General Introductions

	Charles S. Anderson, The Augsburg Historical Atlas of Christianity in the Middle Ages and Reformation. Minneapolis: Augsburg, 1967. Pbk. ISBN: 0806613173.
	Frederick Binkerd Artz, The Mind of the Middle Ages, 3rd edn. University of Chicago Press, 1953. Pbk. ISBN: 0226028402. pp.600. [Sign-up to Perlego and access book instantly]
	Irena Backus, ed., The Reception of the Church Fathers in the West. Leiden: Brill, 1996. Hbk. ISBN: 9004097228. pp.1000.
	Peter Biller, & Barrie Dobson, eds., The Medieval Church: Universities, Heresy, and the Religious Life – Essays in Honour of Gordon Leff, Ecclesiastical History Society, Studies in Church History Subsidia 11. Woodbridge, Suffolk: The Boydell Press, 1999. Hbk. ISBN: 0952973332. pp.352.
	James A. Brundage, Medieval Canon Law. Addison Wesley Longman Higher Education, 1995. Pbk. ISBN: 0582093562. pp.271. [Sign-up to Perlego and access book instantly]
	John W. Burrow, The Ages of Man. A Study in Medieval Writing and Thought. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1988. Pbk. ISBN: 0198117558. pp.224.
	Earle E. Cairns, Christianity Through the Centuries. A History of the Christian Church, revised, 1981. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1996. Hbk. ISBN: 0310208122. pp.560. [Sign-up to Perlego and access book instantly]
	William Ragsdale Cannon, History of Christianity in the Middle Ages. New York: Abingdon, 1960. pp.352.
	J.L. Cate & E.N. Anderson, Medieval and Historiographical Essays in Honour of J.W. Thompson, 1938.
	M. D. Chenu, Jerome Taylor, & Lester K. Little, eds. Nature, Man and Society in the Twelfth Century: Essays on New Theological Prespectives in the Latin West (Medieval Academy Reprints for Teaching, No). University of Toronto Press, 1997. Pbk. ISBN: 0802071759. pp.384.
	Peter Chrisp, Medieval Britain: The Medieval Church. Wayland Publishers, 1996. Hbk. ISBN: 0750217464. pp.48.
	William A. Clebsch, The Study of Ecclesiastical History. New York, 1979.
	William E. Collins, The Study of Ecclesiastical History. Handbooks for the Clergy. London: Longmans Green, 1903. pp.xv + 166.
	Giles Constable, The Reformation of the Twelfth Century. Cambridge University Press, 1998. Pbk. ISBN: 0521638712. pp.427.
	George C. Coulton, Five Centuries of Religion, 4 Vols. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1923-50. pp. xv + 833.
	Edward Lewis Cutts [1824-1908], Turning Points in General Church History. London: SPCK, 1887. Hbk. pp.451. pdf [This material is in the Public Domain]
	Margaret Deanesley, A History of the Medieval Church, 590-1500 AD. Routledge, an imprint of Taylor & Francis Books Ltd., 1969. Pbk. ISBN: 0415039592. pp.292. [Sign-up to Perlego and access book instantly]
	Morton Downs, Basic Documents in Medieval History. Krieger Publishing Company, 1992. Pbk. ISBN: 0894647881. pp.189.
	Eamon Duffy, The Stripping of the Altars. Traditional Religion in England c.1400 - c.1580, 2nd edn. New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 1992, 2005. Pbk. ISBN: 0300060769. pp.654. [Sign-up to Perlego and access book instantly]
	V. Raymond Edman, The Light in the Dark Ages. Wheaton, Illinois: Van Kampen, 1950.
	Alexander Flick, The Decline of the Medieval Church, 2 Vols. London: Kegan, Paul, Trench, Trubner, 1930.
	Alexander Clarence Flick, The Rise of the Medieval Church and its Influence on the Civilisation of Western Europe from the First to the Thirteenth Century. New York, 1909. Reprinted: New York: B. Franklin, 1964. pp. xiii + 623. [Sign-up to Perlego and access book instantly]
	Frederick John Foakes Jackson [1855-1941], An Introduction to the History of Christianity A.D. 590-1314. London: MacMillan & Co. Ltd., 1921. Hbk. pp.390. pdf [This material is in the Public Domain]
	Isnard Wilhehn Frank, A History of the Medieval Church. Paperback (1995) London: SCM Press Ltd., 1995. Pbk. ISBN: 0334025931.
	John Gillingham & Ralph A. Griffiths, Medieval Britain: a Very Short Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. Pbk. ISBN: 019285402X. pp.180.
	John Godfrey, The Church in Anglo-Saxon England. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1962. pp.529.
	Jacques Le Goff, Your Money or Your Life: Economy and Religion in the Middle Ages. MIT Press, 1990. Pbk. ISBN: 0942299159. pp.127.
	Rudolph Heinze, Reform and Conflict: From the Medieval World to the Wars of Religion, A.D. 1350-1648, John D. Woodbridge & David F. Wright, eds., Baker History of the Church, Vol. 4. Grand Rapids: Baker, 2005. Hbk. ISBN: 0801012775. pp.496. [Sign-up to Perlego and access book instantly]
	R.A. Houston, ed., Literacy in Early Modern Europe, 2nd edn. Longmans, 2001. Pbk. ISBN: 978-1317879251. pp.306. [Sign-up to Perlego and access book instantly]
	Herbert Grundmann, Steven Rowan (Translator), Religious Movements in the Middle Ages. University of Notre Dame Press, 1996. Pbk. ISBN: 0268016534. [Sign-up to Perlego and access book instantly]
	Ernest Fraser Jacob, The Fifteenth Century, 1399-1485, Oxford History of England, Vol. 6. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993. Pbk. ISBN: 0192852868. pp.792.
	Paul Johnson, A. History of Christianity. London, 1976. Repinted: Touchstone, 2012. ISBN: 9781451688511. pp.576. [Sign-up to Perlego and access book instantly]
	Karen Louise Jolly, Tradition & Diversity: Christianity in a World Context to 1500 (Sources and Studies in World History). M.E. Sharpe Inc., 1997. Pbk. ISBN: 1563244683. pp.512. [Sign-up to Perlego and access book instantly]
	Jeurgen Ludwig Neve & Otto William Heick, A History of Christian Thought. Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1965.
	Beresford James Kidd [1863-1948], Documents Illustrative of the History of the Church, 2 Vols. London: SPCK, 1920, 1932. Hbk. pp. 282+346. pdf [This material is in the Public Domain]
	André Lagarde, The Latin Church in the Middle Ages. translated by Archibald Alexander. International Theological Library. Edinburgh: Clark, 1915. pp. vi + 600.
	Henry C. Lea, Studies in Church History. The Rise of Temporal Power. Benefit of Clergy. Excommunication. Philadelphia, 1883.
	F. Donald Logan, A History of the Church in the Middle Ages. London & New York: Routledge, 2002. Pbk. ISBN: 0415132894. pp.336. [Sign-up to Perlego and access book instantly]
	Henry S. Lucas, The Renaissance and the Reformation, 2nd edn. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1960. pp.757.
	Joseph Lynch, The Medieval Church. Addison Wesley Longman Higher Education, 1992. Pbk. ISBN: 0582494672. pp.400. [Sign-up to Perlego and access book instantly]
	Alison McHardy, Crown and Church in Late-medieval England. UCL Press, 2000. Pbk. ISBN: 185728156X. pp.256.
	R. A. Markus, William E. Klingshirn & Mark Vessey, Editors. The Limits of Ancient Christianity: Essays on Late Antique Thought and Culture in Honor of R. A. Markus (Recentiores). University of Michigan Press, 1999. Hbk. ISBN: 0472109979. pp.338.
	Henry Hart Milman, History of Latin Christianity, 8 Vols. Murray, 1872.
	Alastair J. Minnis, Late-Medieval Religious Texts and their Transmission: Essays in Honour of A.I. Doyle, York Manuscripts Conferences: Proceedings Series Vol. 3. Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 1994. Hbk. ISBN: 0859913864. pp.256.
	Francis Oakley, The Western Church in the Later Middle Ages. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1979. Pbk. ISBN: 0801493471. pp.346.
	Frederic A. Ogg, A Source Book of Medieval History. New York: American, 1907.
	Louis John Paetow, A Guide in the Study of Medieval History, revised. Periodicals Service Co., 1980. Hbk. ISBN: 0527691011.
	Jaroslav Pelikan, The Growth of Medieval Theology (600-1300), The Christian Tradition, Vol. 3. Chiacago: University of Chicago Press, 1980. Pbk. ISBN: 0226653757. [Sign-up to Perlego and access book instantly]
	Reginald Lane Poole [1857-1939], Illustrations of the History of Medieval Thought and Learning, 2nd edn. London: SPCK, 1932. Hbk. pp.327. pdf [This material is in the Public Domain]
	Jonathan F. Scott, Albert Huma & Arthur H. Noyes, Readings in Medieval History. New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1933.
	Philip Sherrard, The Greek East and the Latin West: A Study in Christian Tradition. Oxford, 1959.
	T.R. Slater & Gervase Rosser, eds. The Church in the Medieval Town. Ashgate Publishing Limited, 1998. Hbk. ISBN: 1840142138. pp.324. [Sign-up to Perlego and access book instantly]
	Rudolf Sohm [1841-1917], Outlines of Church History, translated by Miss May Sinclair. London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1909. Hbk. pp.260. pdf [This material is in the Public Domain]
	R.W. Southern, Western Society and the Church in the Middle Ages, new edn. Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin Books Ltd., 1990. Pbk. 0140137556. pp.384.
	John H. Smith, The Great Schism: The Disruption of the Papacy. New York: Weybright and Tally, 1970.
	R.N. Swanson, Church and Society in Late Medieval England. Blackwell Publishers, 1989. Pbk. ISBN: 0631186433. pp.448.
	Lynn Thorndyke, University Records and Life in the Middle Ages. New York: Columbia University Press, 1944. pp. xvii + 476.
	Walter Ullmann, The Church and the Law in the Earlier Middle Ages. Variorum Reprints. London, 1975. Hbk. SBN: 090208979X. pp.406.
	Andre Vauchez, Daniel E. Bornstein (Editor), Margery J. Schneider, The Laity in the Middle Ages: Religious Beliefs and Devotional Practices. University of Notre Dame Press, 1996. Hbk. ISBN: 0268013098. pp.350.
	Carl A. Volz, The Medieval Church: From the Dawn of the Middle Ages to the Eve of the Reformation. Abingdon Press, 1997. Pbk. ISBN: 068700604X. pp.296.
	George Stuart Murdoch Walker, The Growing Storm. The Paternoster Church History, Vol. 2. Grand Rapids / London: Eerdmans / Paternoster Press, 1961. pp.252.
	Williston Walker, A History of the Christian Church, 4th edn. New York, NY:Scribner, 2014. ISBN: 9781476794679. pp.768. [Sign-up to Perlego and access book instantly]
	Benedicta Ward, Miracles and the Medieval Mind, revised. Scolar Press, 1987. ISBN: 0704505673. pp.322.
	Scott L. Waugh & Peter D. Diehl, Eds. Christendom and Its Discontents: Exclusion, Persecution, and Rebellion, 1000-1500. Cambridge University Press, 1995. Hbk. ISBN: 0521471834. pp.376.
	Donald A. White, Medieval history: a Source Book. The Dorsey series in European History. Homewood, IL: Dorsey Press, 1965. pp.ix + 575.
	Maurice M.C.J. De Wulf, An Introduction to the Scholastic Philosophy. Translated by P. Coffey. New York: Dover, 1956. pp.327.
	Walter Ullmann, The Relevance of Medieval Ecclesiastical History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1966. pp.35.
	David Wallace, ed., The Cambridge History of Medieval English Literature. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999.
	Herbert Brook Workman [1862–1951], The Dawn of the Reformation, Vol. 1. The Age of Wyclif. Books for Bible Students. London: Charles H. Kelly, 1901. Hbk. pp.301. pdf [This material is in the Public Domain]
	Herbert Brook Workman [1862–1951], The Dawn of the Reformation, Vol. 2. The Age of Hus. Books for Bible Students. London: The Epworth Press, 1933 reprint. Hbk. pp.374. pdf [This material is in the Public Domain]
	Herbert Brook Workman [1862–1951], The Church of the West in the Middle Ages, 2 Vols. London: Charles H. Kelly, 1900. Hbk. pp.322+316. pdf [This material is in the Public Domain]