The Church in Britain & Ireland:
Celtic Churches

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Bibliographies

Michael Lapidge & Richard Sharpe, A Bibliography of Celtic-Latin Literature 400-1200. Dublin: Royal Irish Academy, 1993. Hbk. ISBN: 0901714437. pp.384.

Primary Sources

	James C. Davies, ed. Episcopal Acts and Cognate Documents Relating to Welsh Dioceses: 1066-1272, 5 Vols. Cardiff, 1946.
	Kathleen Hughes, Early Christian Ireland: Introduction to the Sources. The sources of history. studies in the uses of historical evidence. London: Hodder, 1972. Pbk. ISBN: 0340161442. pp.256.
	The Celtic World (Medieval Sourcebook)

Secondary Sources

	Edward Anwyl, Celtic Religion in Pre-Christian Times. London, 1906. Repinted: The Banton Press, 1991. Pbk. ISBN: 185652101X. pp.72.
	Ludwig Bieler, St. Patrick and the Coming of Christianity. Patrick J. Corish, ed. A History of Irish Catholicism, Vol.1.. Dublin, 1967.
	Emrys George Bowen, The Settlements of the Celtic Saints in Wales, 2nd edn. Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1956. Hbk. ISBN: 0708300758..
	William Bright [1824-1901], Chapters of Early English Church History, 2nd edn. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1888. Hbk. pp.476. [This material is in the Public Domain]
	John H.S. Burleigh, A Church History of Scotland. Oxford, 1960.
	Nora K. Chadwick, The Age of Saints in the Early Celtic Church. London, 1960. Facsimile of 1960 edn.: LLanerch Press, 1997. Pbk. ISBN: 1861430310.
	Donnachadt Ó Córráin, "Prehistoric and Early Christian Ireland," The Oxford History of Ireland, R.F. Foster, ed. Oxford, 1992. pp.1-43. See bibliography pp.282-85.
	Ian Borthwick Cowan, The Parishes of Medieval Scotland. Scottish Record Society, Vol. 93. Edinburgh: Scottish Record Society, 1967.
	John Dowden, The Bishops of Scotland, Being Notes on the Lives of All the Bishops Under Each of the Sees Prior to the Reformation. Glasgow, 1912.
	T.O. Fiaich, "Irish Monks in Germany in the Late Middle Ages," The Church, Ireland and the Irish, Studies in Church History 25 (1989): 89-104.
	Louis Gougaid, Christianity in Celtic Lands. A History of the Churches of Celts, their Origins, their Development, Influence and Mutual Relations, new edn. Maud Joynt, translator. Four Courts Press, 1994. Hbk. ISBN: 1851820973. pp.526.
	Aubrey Gwynn, The Twelfth-Century Reform. Patrick J. Corish, ed. A History of Irish Catholicism, Vol. 2, No. 1. Dublin: Gill & Macmillan, 1968. Pbk. ISBN: 0717102114.
	Aubrey Gwynn, Anglo-Irish Church Life: Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries, Patrick J. Corish, ed. A History of Irish Catholicism, Vol.2, No.4. Dublin, 1968.
	Aubrey Gwynn, The Irish Church in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 1993. Pbk. ISBN: 1851821171. pp.420.
	Geoffrey Hand, The Church in the English Lordship: 1216-1307. Patrick J. Corish, ed. A History of Irish Catholicism, Vol. 2, No. 3. Dublin: Gill & Macmillan, 1968. Pbk. ISBN: 0717100014.
	Leslie Hardinge, The Celtic Church in Britain. The Church Historical Society Series, No. 91. Teach Services, 1995. Pbk. ISBN: 1572580348.
	Kathleen Hughes, "The Celtic Church: Is This a Valid Concept?" Cambridge Medieval Celtic Studies 1 (1981): 1-20.
	Thomas O'Loughlin, Celtic Theology: Humanity, World and God in Early Irish Writings. Continuum International Publishing Group - Pinter, 2000. Pbk. ISBN: 0826448712. pp.224.
	Canice Mooney, The Church in Gaelic Ireland: Thirteenth to Fifteenth Centuries, Patrick J. Corish, ed. A History of Irish Catholicism, Vol. 2, No. 5. Dublin: Gill & Macmillan, 1970. Pbk. ISBN: 0717102637. pp.62.
	Kathleen Hughes, The Church in Early Irish Society. Methuen Publishing Ltd., 1080. Hbk. ISBN: 0416743900. pp.299.
	Alexander R. MacEwen, A History of the Church in Scotland, 2 Vols. London, Toronto & New York: Hodder and Stoughton, 1913-1918.
	George Frederick Maclear [1833-1902], A History of Christian Missions During the Middle Ages. Cambridge & London: MacMillan & Co, 1863. Hbk. pp.466. [This material is in the Public Domain]
	John Thomas McNeill, The Celtic Churches. A History, A.D. 200-1200. Chicago, 1974. Hbk. ISBN: 0226560953 . pp.289.
	T.M. Moore, "The Second Wave: Irish Revival And Missions In The Generations After Patrick And Prior To The Synod Of Whitby," Reformation & Revival 8.4 (Fall 1999): 147-163. pdf
	Ebenezer J. Newell, A History of the Welsh Church to the Dissolution of the Monastries. London: Elliot Stock, 1895. pp. xii + 435.
	Susan M. Pearce, ed. The Early Church in Western Britain and Ireland: Studies presented to C. A. Ralegh Radford arising out of a Conference organised in his honour by the Devon Archaeological Society and Exeter City Museum. British Archaeological Reports, British Series 102. 1982. Pbk. ISBN: 0860541827.
	Alfred Plummer [1841-1926], The Churches in Britain Before A.D. 1000, 2 Vols. London: Robert Scott, 1911. Hbk. pp.205+264. pdf [This material is in the Public Domain]
	Arthur K. Porter, The Crosses and the Culture of Ireland. New Haven, 1931. Reprinted New York: Arno Press, 1976. Hbk. ISBN: 0405088604.
	Richard Sharpe, "Some Problems Concerning the Organisation of the Church in Early Medieval Ireland," Peritia 3 (1984): 230-70.
	Richard Sharpe, Medieval Irish Saints' Lives: An Introduction to "Vitae Sanctorum Hiberniae". Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991. Hbk. ISBN: 0198215827. pp.438.
	George T. Stokes [1843-1898], Ireland and the Celtic Church. A History of Ireland From St. Patrick to the English Conquest in 1172, 6th revised edn. London: SPCK, 1907. Hbk. pp.382. pdf [This material is in the Public Domain]
	A.Charles Thomas, The Early Christian Archaeology of North Britain. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1971. Hbk. ISBN: 0192141023. pp.270.
	A.Charles Thomas, Christianity in Roman Britain to AD 500. Routledge, an imprint of Taylor & Francis Books Ltd., 1999. Hbk. ISBN: 0415166349.
	Siân Victory, The Celtic Church in Wales. London: SPCK, 1977. Pbk. ISBN: 0281029458. pp.146.
	David Walker, ed. A History of the Church in Wales. Penarth: Church in Wales Publications, 1976. Hbk. ISBN: 0853260109. pp.221.
	F.E. Warren, The Liturgy and Ritual of the Celtic Church. Oxford, 1881. Reprinted with an introduction by Jane Stevenson. Studies in Celtic History, 9. Woodbridge, Suffolk: The Boydell Press, 1987. Hbk. ISBN: 0851154735. pp.392.
	John A . Watt, The Church and the Two Nations in Medieval Ireland. Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought, 3rd series, 4. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1970. ISBN: 0521077389. pp.251.
	Glanmor Williams, The Welsh Church from Conquest to Reformation. Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1976. Hbk. ISBN: 0708306519. pp.612.
	Hugh Williams, Christianity in Early Britian. Oxford, 1912.