AUTHORITIES.--General Histories, Narrative: J. Collier,
_Ecclesiastical History of Great Britain_ (to 1685), ed. T. Lathbury
(9 vols., London, 1852); T. Fuller, _Church History_ (to 1648), ed. J.
S. Brewer (Oxford, 1845), valuable near the author's own time; C.
Dodd, _Church History of England_ (to 1625, by a Roman Catholic), ed.
M. A. Tierney (5 vols., London, 1839-1843); Dean W. F. Hook, Lives of
the _Archbishops of Canterbury_ (to 1663) (12 vols., London,
1860-1879); G. G. Perry, _Students' English Church History_ (to 1884)
(London, 1887), a carefully written book; _A History of the English
Church_, ed. Stephens and Hunt, in 8 vols., noticed below under
various periods; H. O. Wakeman, _An Introduction to the History of the
Church of England_ (London, 1896), a brightly written manual by a
pronounced high churchman. Documents: D. Wilkins, _Concilia_
(446-1717) (4 vols. fol., London, 1737), a splendid work; A. W. Haddan
and Bishop W. Stubbs, _Councils and Ecclesiastical Documents_ (3
vols., Oxford, 1869-1873), supersedes Wilkins so far as it goes, but
deals with English Church only to 870, with Welsh, Scottish and
Cumbrian churches to later dates; H. Gee and W. J. Hardy, _Documents
of English Church History_ (to 1700) (London, 1896), useful for
students. Constitutional: Bishop W. Stubbs, _Constitutional History of
England_ (parts of) (3 vols., revised ed., Oxford, 1895-1897), a work
of great learning; F. Makower, _Constitutional History of the Church
of England_, from the German (London, 1895); F. W. Maitland, _Roman
Canon Law in the Church of England_ (London, 1898), authoritative.
(See under CONVOCATION.)
From 597: Bede, _Historia ecclesiastica_, ed. C. Plummer (2 vols.,
Oxford, 1896), the primary authority to 731, trans. by J. A. Giles
(Bohn's Library) and others; see also Eddi's contemporary "Vita
Wilfridi," in _Historians of York_, ed. James Raine, Rolls series (3
vols., 1879-1894); W. Bright, _Early English Church History_ (to 709)
(3rd ed., Oxford, 1897), a learned and beautiful book; articles in
_Dictionary of Christian Biography_ (to 9th century), ed. W. Smith and
H. Wace (4 vols., London, 1877-1887). Later Anglo-Saxon: In Chronicles
and biographies, as _Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, Two of the Saxon
Chronicles_, ed. C. Plummer (2 vols., 1892), trans. by B. Thorpe,
Rolls series (1861), and others; Asser, _Life of Alfred_, ed. W. H.
Stevenson (Oxford, 1904), trans. by Giles; _Memorials of Dunstan_,
ed. W. Stubbs, Rolls series (1874). Modern: J. Lingard, _History of
the Anglo-Saxon Church_ (2 vols., London, 2nd ed., printed 1858); W.
Hunt, _History of the English Church_, 597-1066, ed. Stephens and Hunt
(London, revised ed., 1901).
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