Sources
- A.—PRIMARY:
- I. ENGLAND, IRELAND, AND SCOTLAND. See Gross, Sources and
Lit. of Eng. Hist.
- 1.—Gildas (d. 570), Works. Transl. by J. A. Giles. Bohn Lib.
- 2.—Bede (d. 735), Ecclesiastical History of England. Various eds.
- 3.—Neimius (d. 9th cent.). History of the Britons (to 642). Bohn.
- 4.—Ethelwerd (d. 988), Chronicle (to 959). Ib.
- 5.—Asser (d. 909), Life of Alfred (to 893). Ib.
- 6.—Geoffrey (d. 1154), British History (to 688). Ib.
- 7.—Henry of Huntingdon (d. 1155), History of England. Ib.
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- 11.—Giles, J. A., Patres Ecclesiæ Anglicanæ. Lond., 1843-8. 19 vols. Works of thirteen Fathers. Parts in Eng.
- 12.—The Pipe Rolls. Lond., 1884-1900. 24 vols.
- 13.—English Historical Society Publications. Lond., 1838-50. 27 vols.
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- 21.—Stevens, H. M., and Adams, G. B. Select Documents of English Constitutional History, N. Y., 1901.
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- II.—FRANCE:
- 1.—Masson, G., The Early Chroniclers of France. Lond., 1879.
- 2.—Gregory of Tours, Ecclesiastical of the Franks. Univ. of Pa. Tr. announced.
- III.—GERMANY:
- 1.—Boniface, Works. A few letters translated in preface of Giles, Patres Ecclesiæ Anglicanæ.
- Bibliographical note:—Much valuable material for England has not yet been translated into English. For France, Spain, Germany, Scandinavia and the Slavic lands practically all the material is in Latin. Some of the chief sources are: Pertz, Monumenta; Mansi, Sacrorum;
- Migne, Patrologiæ; Niebuhr, Corpus Byzantinæ; Jaffé, Monumenta and Regesta; Potthast, Regesta; Bolland, Acta; Pelzel and Dabrowsky, Rerum Bohemic.; Hübner, Inscriptiones Britanniæ Christianæ.
- I. ENGLAND, IRELAND, AND SCOTLAND. See Gross, Sources and
Lit. of Eng. Hist.
- B.—SECONDARY:
- I.—SPECIAL:
- 1.—Aikman, J. L., Cyclopædia of Christian Missions. Lond., 1861.
- 2.—Allen, J. R., Monumental History of the Early British Church. Lond., 1889.
- 3.—Bliss, E. M., Encyclopædia of Missions. N. Y., 1891. 2 vols.
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- 10.—Maclear, G. F., Apostles of Mediæval Europe. Lond.,
1869. History of Christian Missions during the Middle
Ages. Camb., 1863.
- Conversion of the Celts. Lond., 1879.
- Conversion of the Slavs. Lond., 1879.
- Conversion of the English. Lond., 1879.
- Conversion of the Northmen. Lond., 1879.
- 11.—Merivale, C., Conversion of the West. N. Y., 1879. 5 vols. The Conversion of the Roman Empire. Boyle Lect. Lond., 1864. The Conversion of the Northern Nations. Boyle Lect. Lond., 1865.
- 12.—Newell, E. J., St. Patrick. Lond., 1878.
- 13.—Smith, F., The Origin and History of Missions. Bost., 1842.
- 14.—Smith, G., Short History of Christian Missions. N. Y., 1884.
- 15.—Smith, R. T., The Church in Roman Gaul. Lond., 1878.
- 16.—Smith, T., Mediæval Missions. Edinb., 1880.
- 17.—Snow, T. B., St. Gregory the Great. Lond., 1892.
- 18.—Summers, W. H., Rise and Spread of Christianity in Europe. N. Y., 1894.
- 19.—Taylor, A. T., How Christianity Conquered the Roman Empire.
- 20.—Walrond, T. F., Christian Missions before the Reformation. Lond., 1873.
- 21.—Wyse, J., Missionary Centres of the Middle Ages. Lond., 1872.
- II.—GENERAL:
- Adeney, ch. 8. Alzog, ii., ch. 1. Anderson, J., Scot. in Early Chr. Times. Butler, ch. 46-49. Cheetham, ch. 14. Coxe, Lect. 2, sec. 28-30; Lect. 4, sec. 1-3. Crooks, ch. 31. Darras, i., 54, 269, 329, 333-336, 399; ii., 254. Döllinger, ii., ch. 2; iii., ch. 1. Foulkes, ch. 5-10. Fisher, 45 f., 145 f., 163. Gieseler, 2d pd., sec. 107, 108, 122-126, 134; 3d pd., sec. 16, 37-40, 44. Gilmartin, i., ch. 24-26. Godkin, Hist. of Hung. Godwin, Hist. of Fr. Greene, Hist. of M. A. Guericke, sec. 65-68. Hardwick, ch. 1, 5, 9, 13. Hase, sec. 148-156. Hore, ch. 6, 8. Hurst, i., 556-599, 619. Kurtz, i., 397-401, 440-482; ii., 1-13. Mahan, bk. 4, ch. 12. Masson, Early Chroniclers of Fr. Milman, i., bk. 3, ch. 2; ii., bk. 4, ch. 3-5. Moeller, i., 535-541. Neander, iii., 1-84, 271-346. Pressensé, bk. i., ch. 1. Robertson, bk. 2, ch. 13. Schaff, pd. 3, ch. 1, pd. 4, ch. 3.
- I.—SPECIAL:
FOOTNOTES:
[229:1] Matt. xxviii., 19, 20.
[229:2] Ignatius, Letter to the Ephesians, ch. 10. See Smith and Cheetham, art. on "The Heathen."
[229:3] An illustration of what must have been a common practice is found in the case of Eusebius, the Bishop of Vercelli, who made his cathedral church the centre of a wide missionary field.
[230:1] Matt. x., 34.
[231:1] Neander, Light in Dark Places, 417.
[232:1] Philostorgius, Eccl. Hist., ii., 5.