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Primary Sources

	Bede: The Life and Miracles of St. Cuthbert, Bishop of Lindesfarne (721) (Medieval Sourcebook)
	George Forrest Browne [1833-1930], Lessons from English Church History. Three Lectures. London: SPCK, 1893. Hbk. pp.115. pdf [This material is in the Public Domain]
	George Forrest Browne [1833-1930], The Christian Church in These Islands Before the Coming of Augustine. Three Lectures Delivered at St. Paul's in January 1894, 2nd edn.London: SPCK, 1895. Hbk. pp.156. pdf [This material is in the Public Domain]
	Charles Thomas Cruttwell [1847-1911], The Saxon Church and the Norman Conquest. London: Methuen & Co., 1909. Hbk. pp.268. pdf [This material is in the Public Domain]
	William Dugdale & R. Dodsworth, Monasticon Anglicanum, or the History of the Ancient Abbies and Other Monastries, Hospitals, Cathedral and Collegiate Churches in England and Wales, 6 Vols. London: 1817-1830. Gregg International, 1970. Hbk. ISBN: 0576785377.
	Henry Gee [1858-1938] & John William Hardy [1857-1919], Documents Illustrative of English Church History, Compiled from Original Sources. London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1921. Hbk. pp.670. pdf [This material is in the Public Domain]
	Edgar Charles Sumner Gibson [1848-1924], Northumbrian Saints; or, Chapters from the Early History of the English Church. London: SPCK, 1897. Hbk. pp.127. pdf [This material is in the Public Domain]
	Arthur W. Haddan & William Stubbs, eds. Councils and Ecclesiastical Documents Relating to Great Britian and Ireland, 3 Vols. London, 1869-1873. Reprinted Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1965. Hbk. ISBN: 0198213352.
	William Holden Hutton [1860-1930], An Elementary History of the Church in Great Britain. Oxford Church Text Books. London: Rivingtons, 1899. Hbk. pp.99. pdf [This material is in the Public Domain]
	William E. Tate, The Parish Chest. A Study of the Records of Parochial Administration in England, 3rd edn. Phillimore & Co Ltd., 1983. ISBN: 0850335078. pp.400.

Secondary Sources

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	Frank Barlow, The English Church: 1000-1066. A Constitutional History. London: Longman, 1963. Hbk. ISBN: 0582502357. pp.324.
	Ludwig Bieler, Ireland, Harbinger of the Middle Ages, 2nd edn. London & New York : Oxford University Press, 1966. pp.148.
	Zachary Nugent Brooke, The English Church and Papacy from the Conquest to the Reign of John. Cambridge: Cambridge Univerisyt Press, 1989. Pbk. ISBN: 0521366879. pp.288.
	Art Cosgrove, ed., A New Oxford History of Ireland: II – Medieval Ireland 1169-1534. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993.
	Henry Cotton, Fasti Ecclesiæ Hibernicæ – The Succession of the Prelates and Members of the Cathedral Bodies in Ireland: Volume III, The Province of Ulster. Dublin: Hodges and Smith, 1849. pp. ix + 141.
	Liam de Paor, St. Patrick's World: The Christian Culture of Ireland's Apostolic Age. Notre Dame, IN, 1993.
	Nora Kershaw Chadwick, ed. Studies in the Early British Church. Cambridge, 1958. Reprinted: Shoe String P, US, 1989. Hbk. ISBN: 0208013156.
	Christopher R. Cheney, English Bishops' Chanceries: 1100-1250. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1950. Hbk. ISBN: 0719012066.
	George G. Coulton, Five Centuries of Religion. Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought, 4 Vols. Cambridge, 1923-1950. Reprinted: Octagon Books, US, 1980. Hbk. ISBN: 0374919232.
	Samuel J. Crawford, Anglo-Saxon Influence on Western Christendom: 600-800. Oxford, 1933. Repinted: Speculum Historiale, 1966. Hbk. ISBN: 0904676021.
	Claire Cross, Church and People: 1450-1600. The Triumph of the Laity in the English Church, 2nd edn. Blackwell, 1999. Pbk. ISBN: 0631214674. pp.264.
	Edward L. Cutts, Parish Priests and their People in the Middle Ages in England. London: SPCK, 1914. pp. xviii + 579.
	Margaret Deanesly, The Pre-Conquest Church in England. An Ecclesiastical History of England, 2nd edn., Vol. 1. London: Black, 1963. Hbk. ISBN: 0713601906.
	Arthur G. Dickens, The English Reformation, 2nd edn. London: B T Batsford, 1991. Pbk. ISBN: 0713469242. pp.461.
	John C. Dickenson, The Later Middle Ages from the Norman Conquest to the Eve of the Reformation. An Ecclesiastical History of England. London: A & C Black, 1979. Hbk. ISBN: 0713619481. pp.544.
	Jeffrey H. Denton, English Royal Free Chapels: 1100-1300. A Constitutional Study. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1970. Hbk. ISBN: 0719004055. pp.190.
	R.B. Dobson, Church and Society in the Medieval North of England. London: Hambledon and London Ltd, 1996. Hbk. ISBN: 1852851201. pp.288.
	Eleanor Shipley Duckett, Anglo-Saxon Saints and Scholars. New York & London, 1947. Reprinted: Shoe String Press, US, 1983. Hbk. ISBN: 0208002006.
	Boris Ford, ed., Cambridge Cultural History: Volume II, Medieval Britain. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992.
	Richard Gameson, Saint Augustine of Canterbury. Canterbury Sources, 1998. Pbk. ISBN: 0950139211.
	Vincent Gillespie, ‘Cura Pastoralis in Deserto’, De Cella in Seculum: Religious and Secular Life and Devotion in Late Medieval England, Michael Sargent, ed. Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 1989. Hbk. ISBN: 085991268X. pp.161-81.
	John Godfrey, The Church in Anglo-Saxon England. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1962. Hbk. ISBN: 0521050898.
	Rose Graham, English Ecclesiastical Studies. Being Some Essays in Research in Medieval History. London, 1929.
	Aubrey Gwynn & R. Neville Hadcock, Medieval Religious Houses – Ireland. London: Longman, 1970.
	Roy Martin Haines, The Church and Politics in Fourteenth-century England. The Career of Adam Orleton: C.1275-1345. Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought, 3rd series, Vol. 10. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1978. Hbk. ISBN: 0521215447.
	Reginald A.R. Hartridge, A History of Vicarages in the Middle Ages. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1930. pp. x + 273. Reprinted New York, 1968.
	Peter Heath, English Parish Clergy on the Eve of the Reformation. Studies in Social History. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1969. Hbk. ISBN: 0710062168. pp.268.
	Dom David Knowles, The Religious Orders in England, Volumes I-III. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1948, 1955, & 1959.
	David Knowles & R. Neville Hadcock, Medieval Religious Houses: England and Wales. London: Longman, 1971.
	Clifford H. Lawrence, ed. The English Church and the Papacy in the Middle Ages, revised. Sutton Publishing, 1999. Pbk. ISBN: 0750919477. pp.259.
	Wilhelm Levinson, England and the Continent in the Eighth Century, 1948. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998. Hbk. ISBN: 0198212321. pp.355.
	Joseph Barber Lightfoot [1828-1889], Leaders in the Northern Church. Sermons Preached in the Diocese of Durham, 2nd edn.. London: MacMillan & Co., 1899. Hbk. pp.221. pdf [This material is in the Public Domain]
	John Lingard, History and Antiquities of the Anglo-Saxon Church, Containing an Account of its Origin, Government, Doctrines, Worship, Revenues and Clerical and Monastic Institutions, 2 Vols. London, 1845.
	Francis Donald Logan, Excommunication and the Secular Arm in Medieval England. A Study in Legal Procedure from the Thirteenth to the Sixteenth Century. Pontificial Institute of Medieval Studies. Studies and Texts, 15. Toronto, 1968.
	F. Donald Logan, A History of the Church in the Middle Ages. London & New York: Routledge, 2002. Pbk. ISBN: 0415132894. pp.51-69.
	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]
	Henry Mayr-Harting, The Coming of Christianity in Anglo-Saxon England, 3rd edn. Penn State University Press, 1991. Pbk. ISBN: 0271007699. pp.354.
	Edward Miller, The Abbey and Bishoppric of Ely. The Social History of an Ecclesiastical Estate from the 10th Century to the Early 14th Century. Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought, 1. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1951. pp. xii + 313.
	John R.H. Moorman, Church Life in England in the Thirteenth Century. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1945. pp. xxviii + 444.
	John R.H. Moorman, A History of the Church in England, 3rd edn. Morehouse, 1986. Pbk. ISBN: 081921406X. pp.485.
	[Thomas Stanley] R[oger Benn] Littledale Palmer [1889-1948], English Monasteries in the Middle Ages. An Outline of Monastic Architecture and Custom from the Conquest to the Suppression. London: Constable and Company Ltd., 1930. Hbk. pp.233. pdf [This material is in the Public Domain]
	William Abel Pantin, The English Church in the Fourteenth Century. Mediaeval Academy of America Reprints for Teaching, No. 5. University of Toronto Press Inc., 1980. Pbk. ISBN: 0802064116. pp.291.
	M.W. Patterson [1873-1944], A History of the Church of England. London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1929. Hbk. pp.457.
	Conrad Pepler, O.P., The English Religious Heritage,. London: Blackfriars Publications, 1958.
	Walter Alison Phillips, ed., History of the Church of Ireland from the Earliest Times to the Present Day: Volume II, the Movement towards Rome, the Medieval Church and the Reformation. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1934.
	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]
	Herbert Maynard Smith, Pre-Reformation England. London, 1938. Reprinted: London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1963. pp.xv + 556.
	Frank M. Stenton, Anglo-Saxon England. The Oxford History of England, 2, 3rd edn. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001. Pbk. ISBN: 0192801392. pp.123, 132-45.
	William R.W. Stephens & W. Hunt, History of the English Church, 9 Vols. London, 1899-1910.
	R.L. Storey, Diocesan Administration in the Fifteenth Century. St. Anthony's Press, 1972. Hbk. ISBN: 0900701366.
	Charles Thomas, Christianity in Roman Britain to AD 500. London: Routledge, an imprint of Taylor & Francis Books Ltd., 1999. Hbk. ISBN: 0415166349.
	Alexander Hamilton Thompson, The English Clergy and their Organisation in the Late Middle Ages. Oxford, 1966.
	Maura Walsh & Dáibhi Ó Cróinín, eds., Cummain's Letter De controversia Paschali, Together with Related Irish Computiscal Tract De Ratione Computandi. Toronto, 1988.
	Benedicta Ward, "Bede and the Conversion of the Anglo-Saxons," Word and Spirit 7 (1985): 34-46.
	John Watt, The Church in Medieval Ireland, The Gill History of Ireland 5. Dublin: University College Dublin Press, 1998. Pbk. ISBN: 190062110X. pp.288.
	Kathleen L. Wood-Leigh, Perpetual Chantries in Britain. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1965. pp. xiii + 357.
	John Robert Wright, The Church and the English Crown: 1305-1334. A Study Based on the Register of Archbishop Walter Reynolds. Studies and Texts, 48. Toronto, 1980.