All that is necessary to be known is to be found in Stubbs’ Constitutional History. Treated more at length in Kemble’s Saxons in England, and Sir F. Palgrave’s History of the English Commonwealth. An excellent sketch in Freeman’s Norman Conquest. All the ancient laws are collected in Thorpe’s Ancient Laws; sufficient extracts to be found in Stubbs’ Illustrative Documents. The whole history, including literature and society, is given in Green’s History of the English People in a brief and very interesting form.
General Authorities.
Bæda’s Ecclesiastical History, for a century and a half after the landing of Augustin. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, which becomes very important after the time of Alfred. Milman’s Latin Christianity.
The English Conquest.
Gildas, and the earlier part of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle.
Establishment of the Church.
Kemble’s Saxons. Stubbs’ Constitutional History.
Alfred.
Asser’s Life. Dr. Pauli’s Life.
Dunstan.