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 [1840-1910], The Bishops of Scotland, Being Notes on the Lives of All the Bishops Under Each of the Sees Prior to the Reformation. Glasgow: James Maclehose and Sons, 1912. pp.472. pdf [This material is in the Public Domain]
	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.
	Arthur West Haddan [1816-1873] & William Stubbs [1825-1901], eds. Councils and Ecclesiastical Documents Relating to Great Britain and Ireland, 3 Vols. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1869-1873. pp.704+285+361+660. pdf [This material is in the Public Domain]
	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 [1843-1911], Christianity in Early Britain. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1912. Hbk. pp.484. pdf [This material is in the Public Domain]