Augustine of Canterbury

Augustine the Missionary by Henry H Howorth

Today’s free book is Henry H Howorth’s classic study of the career of Augustine of Canterbury.

This public domain title was digitised from the copy held in Spurgeon’s College library.

Henry Hoyle Howorth [1842-1923], Saint Augustine of Canterbury with Illustrations, Maps, Tables and Appendices. The Birth of the English Church. London: John Murray, 1913. Hbk. pp.451. [Click here to visit the download page for this title]

Contents

  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • The Emperors, Popes and the Kings of the Franks and Visigoths, from 5495- to 664
  • Genealogy of the Descendents of Chlothaire II
  • The English Archbishops ad Bishops, and the Abbots of St. Augustines, from 597 to 664
  • The Episcopal Succession from Augustine to Damian
  • Genealogy of the Kings of Kent and Essex
  • Genealogy of the Kings of East Anglia
  • Genealogy of the Kings of Deira
  • Genealogy of the Kings of Bernicia
  • Addenda
  • Chapters 1 – 6
  • Appendix I: The Bubonic Plague in the Sixth and Seventh Centuries
  • Appendix II: Pope Honorius and the Monothelites
  • Appendix III: The Popes and Their Nuncios at Constantinople

Main image: Great Gate of St. Augustine’s Abbey. Source: Wikipedia

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