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1 Converting the Isles Bibliography ANGLO-SAXON ENGLAND Primary Sources Adomnán of Iona, Vita Sancti Columbæ, Adomnan's Life of Columba, ed. A. O. and M. O. Anderson (1961; rev. ed., Oxford Medieval Texts, 1991) and trans. R. Sharpe, Life of St Columba (1995) Life of St Cuthbert, ed. and transl. B. Colgrave, Two Lives of St Cuthbert (1940, rept 1985), pp Bede, Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum, Bede s Ecclesiastical History of the English People, ed. B. Colgrave and R.A.B. Mynors, Oxford Medieval Texts (1969; rev. ed. 1991); Storia degli inglesi/historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum, ed. M. Lapidge, trans. (Italian) P. Chiesa, 2 vols. ( ); cf. J. M. Wallace- Hadrill, Bede s Ecclesiastical History of the English People : a Historical Commentary, Oxford Medieval Texts (1988) Bede, De temporum ratione, Bedae Opera de Temporibus, ed. C. W. Jones (1943), pp and Bedae Venerabilis Opera, VI.2: Opera Didascalica, Corpus Christianorum Series Latina 123B (1977), pp ; transl. F. Wallis, Bede: The Reckoning of Time (1999) Pope Gregory the Great, S. Gregorii Magni registrum epistularum, ed. D. Norberg, 2 vols., Corpus Christianorum Series Latina A (1982-3); transl. J. R. C. Martyn, The Letters of Pope Gregory the Great, 3 vols. (2004); A. J. Mason ed. and transl, The Mission of St Augustine to England According to the Original Documents (1897) The Whitby Life of Pope Gregory the Great, ed. B. Colgrave, The Earliest Life of Gregory the Great, by an Anonymous Monk of Whitby (1968, rept. 1985); transl. C. W. Jones, Saints Lives and Chronicles in Early England (1947), pp Liber Pontificalis, ed. L. Duchesne, Le Liber Pontificalis: Texte, introduction et commentaire, 2 vols. ( ); transl. R. Davis, The Book of Pontiffs: the Ancient Biographies of the First Ninety Roman Bishops to AD 715 (1989) Stephen of Ripon, Life of St Wilfrid, ed. and transl. B. Colgrave, The Life of Bishop Wilfrid by Eddius Stephanus (1927, rept 1985) Life of Bathild, Vita Domnae Balthidis, 604a Historia Brittonum, ed. D. N. Dumville, The Historia Brittonum, 3: The Vatican Recension (1985); J. Morris ed. and transl. Nennius, British History and the Welsh Annals (1980) D. Whitelock ed. and transl., English Historical Documents I: c , 2 nd edn. (1979 and reptd 1996) Early Law Codes, ed. F. Liebermann, Die Gesetze der Angelsachsen, 3 vols. ( ); transl. in D. Whitelock ed. and transl., English Historical Documents I: c , 2 nd edn. (1979 and reptd 1996) nos Secondary Sources A. Angenendt, The Conversion of the Anglo- Saxons Considered against the Background of the Early Medieval Mission, Settimane di studio del Centro italiano di studi sull' alto medioevo 32 (1986), P. Bartholomew, Continental Connections: Angles, Saxons and Others in Bede and Procopius, Anglo-Saxon Studies in Archaeology and History 13 (2006),

2 J. Blair, Anglo- Saxon Pagan Shrines and their Prototypes, Anglo-Saxon Studies in Archaeology and History 8 (1995), 1-28 J. Blair, The Church in Anglo-Saxon Society (2005) J. Blair, Overview: The Archaeology of Religion, in H. Hamerow, D. A. Hinton and S. Crawford eds., The Oxford Handbook of Anglo-Saxon Archaeology (2011), pp P. H. Blair, An Introduction to Anglo-Saxon England (1956), 3rd ed. (2003), pp P. H. Blair, The Letters of Pope Boniface V and the Mission of Paulinus to Northumbria, in P. Clemoes and K. Hughes eds., England before the Conquest: Studies in Primary Sources presented to Dorothy Whitelock (1971), pp P. H. Blair, Northumbria in the Days of Bede (1976) P. H. Blair, The World of Bede (1970); rpt. with addenda (1990) W. Bonser. The Medical Background of Anglo-Saxon England (1963), pp N. Brooks, Historical Introduction, in L. Webster and J. Backhouse eds., The Making of England: Anglo-Saxon Art and Culture AD (1991), pp. 9-14; rpt. in N. Brooks, Anglo-Saxon Myths: State and Church (2000), pp N. Brooks, From British to English Christianity: Deconstructing Bede s Interpretation of the Conversion, in C. E. Karkov and N. Howe eds., Conversion and Colonization in Anglo-Saxon England, Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (2006), 3 30 R. Bruce- Mitford, Aspects of Anglo-Saxon Archaeology: Sutton Hoo and other Discoveries (1974) R. Bruce- Mitford, The Sutton Hoo Ship-Burial, 3 vols. ( ) R. Bruce- Mitford, The Sutton Hoo Ship- Burial: Some Foreign Connections, Settimane di studio del Centro italiano di studi sull' alto medioevo 32 (1986), E. Cambridge, The Architecture of the Augustinian Mission, in R. Gameson ed., St Augustine and the Conversion of England (1999), pp J. Campbell, The First Christian Kings, in J. Campbell ed., The Anglo-Saxons (1982), pp J. Campbell, The First Century of Christianity in England, in his Essays in Anglo-Saxon History, (1986), pp J. Campbell, Observations on the Conversion of England, in his Essays in Anglo-Saxon History, (1986), pp J. Campbell, The Impact of the Sutton Hoo Discovery on the Study of Anglo- Saxon History, in C. B. Kendall and P. S. Wells eds., Voyage to the Other World: the Legacy of Sutton Hoo, Medieval Studies at Minnesota 5 (1992), pp (reptd in J. Campbell, The Anglo-Saxon State (2000)) A. Care Evans, The Sutton Hoo Ship Burial (1986) M. Carver, Sutton Hoo in Context, Settimane di studio del Centro italiano di studi sull' alto medioevo 32 (1986), M. Carver, The Age of Sutton Hoo: the Seventh Century in North-Western Europe (1992) M. Carver ed., Sutton Hoo Research Committee Bulletins (1993) M. Carver, Sutton Hoo: Burial Ground of Kings? (1998) M. Carver ed., The Cross Goes North: Processes of Conversion in Northern Europe, AD (2003) M. Carver, The Anglo- Saxon Cemetary at Sutton Hoo: an Interim Report, in M. Carver ed., The Cross Goes North: Processes of Conversion in Northern Europe, AD (2003), pp M. Carver, Sutton Hoo: a Seventh-Century Princely Burial Ground and its Context, Reports of the Research Committee of the Society of Antiquaries of London 69 (2005) M. Carver, A. Sanmark, and S. Semple, eds., Signals of Belief in Early England: Anglo- Saxon Paganism Revisited (2010) H. Chadwick, Gregory the Great and the Mission to the Anglo- Saxons, Gregorio Magno e il suo tempo, Studia Ephemeridis Augustinianum 33 (1991),

3 P. Chaplais, Who Introduced Charters into England? The Case for Augustine, in F. Ranger ed. Prisca Munimenta (1973), pp T. Charles- Edwards, Conversion to Christianity in his Short Oxford History of the British Isles: After Rome (2003), pp S. D. Church, Paganism in Conversion- Age Anglo- Saxon England: the Evidence of Bede s Ecclesiastical History Reconsidered, History 93 (2008), E. Coatsworth, The Material Cuture of the Church, in H. Hamerow, D. A. Hinton and S. Crawford eds., The Oxford Handbook of Anglo-Saxon Archaeology (2011), pp R. Cramp, The Making of Oswald s Northumbria, in C. Stancliffe and E. Cambridge eds., Oswald: Northumbrian King to European Saint (1995), pp E. Demougeot, Grégoire le Grand et la conversion du roi germain au Vie siècle, in J. Fontaine, et al. eds., Grégoire le Grand (1986), pp B. Dickens, English Names and Old English Heathenism, Essays and Studies by Members of the English Association 19 (1934), K. East, The Sutton Hoo Ship Burial: a Case against the Coffin, Anglo-Saxon Studies in Archaeology and History 3 (1984), R. Emms, The Early History of St. Augustine s Abbey, Canterbury, in R. Gameson ed., St Augustine and the Conversion of England (1999), pp V. I. Evison, The Body in the Ship at Sutton Hoo, Anglo-Saxon Studies in Archaeology and History 1, British Archaeological Reports, British series 72 (1979), D. Farmer, St Augustine s Life and Legacy, in R. Gem ed., English Heritage Book of St Augustine s Abbey Canterbury (1997), pp R. Fletcher, The Conversion of Europe: From Paganism to Christianity AD (1997) P. Fouracre, Franks, in M. Lapidge et at. eds., The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Anglo- Saxon England (1999), pp R. Frank, Beowulf and Sutton Hoo: the Odd Couple, in C. B. Kendall and P. S. Wells eds., Voyage to the Other World: the Legacy of Sutton Hoo, Medieval Studies at Minnesota 5 (1992), pp (reptd in C. E. Karkov ed., The Archaeology of Anglo- Saxon England: Basic Readings, Basic Readings in Anglo- Saxon England (1999), pp ) R. Gameson, Saint Augustine of Canterbury (1997) R. Gameson ed., St Augustine and the Conversion of England (1999) R. Gameson and F. Gameson, From Augustine to Parker: the Changing Face of the First Archbishop of Canterbury, in S. D. Keynes and A. P. Smyth eds., Anglo-Saxons: Studies presented to Cyril Roy Hart (2006) A. Gannon, The Iconography of Early Anglo-Saxon Coinage: Sixth to Eighth Centuries (2003) H. Geake, The Use of Grave-Goods in Conversion-Period England, c. 600 c. 850, British Archaeological Reports, British Series 261 (1997) H. Geake, Invisible Kingdoms: the Use of Grave- Goods in Seventh- Century England, in T. Dickinson and D. Griffiths eds., The Making of Kingdoms, Anglo-Saxon Studies in Archaeology and History 10 (1999), pp H. Geake, The Control of Burial Practice in Middle Anglo- Saxon England, in M. Carver ed., The Cross Goes North: Processes of Conversion in Northern Europe, AD (2003), pp M. Gelling, Place- Names and Anglo- Saxon Paganism, University of Birmingham Historical Journal 8.1 (1961), 7-25 M. Gelling, Further Thoughts on Pagan Place- Names, in K. Cameron ed. Place-Name Evidence for the Anglo-Saxon Invasion and Scandinavian Settlements (1975), pp M. Gelling, Signposts to the Past (1978), pp M. Gelling, The West Midlands in the Early Middle Ages (1992), pp

4 H. Gittos, Christian Scared Spaces and Places in H. Hamerow, D. A. Hinton and S. Crawford eds., The Oxford Handbook of Anglo-Saxon Archaeology (2011), pp M. Gretsch, Ælfric and the Cult of Saints in Late Anglo-Saxon England, Cambridge Studies in Anglo- Saxon England 34 (2005) H. Hamerow, D. A. Hinton and S. Crawford eds., The Oxford Handbook of Anglo-Saxon Archaeology (2011) S. C. Hawkes, The Archaeology of Conversion: Cemeteries, in J. Campbell ed., The Anglo-Saxons, pp N. J. Higham, Politics and the Conversion;, in his The Kingdom of Northumbria AD (1993), pp R. Hill, The Labourers in the Field, Jarrow Lecture 1974 (1975) J. Hines, The Scandinavian Character of Anglian England in the Pre-Viking Period, British Archaeological Reports British Series 124 (1984), pp D. Hinton, Great Sites: Yeavering;, British Archaeology (April 2001), pp S. Hirst, The Prittlewell Prince: the Discovery of a Rich Anglo-Saxon Burial in Essex, Museum of London Archaeological Service (2004) S. Hollis, Queen Converters and the Conversion of the Queen: Bede s Ecclesiastical History and the Royal Marriage, in his Anglo-Saxon Women and the Church (1992), pp B. Hope- Taylor, Yeavering: an Anglo-British Centre of Early Northumbria (1977), especially chapters 1 and 6 C. Hough, The Early Kentish Divorce Laws: a Reconsideration of Æthelberht, chs. 79 and 80, Anglo-Saxon England 23 (1994), C. Hough, The Widow s Mund in Æthelberht 75 and 76, Journal of English and Germanic Philology 98 (1999), 1-16 K. Hughes, The Church in Early Irish Society (1966) E. James, Britain in the First Millennium (2001), pp R. Jessup, Anglo-Saxon Jewellery (1950), pp and plate IV, and E. John, The Point of Woden, Anglo-Saxon Studies in Archaeology and History 5 (1992), S. Kelly, The Anglo- Saxon Abbey, in R. Gem ed., English Heritage Book of St Augustine s Abbey Canterbury (1997), pp C. B. Kendall and P. S. Wells eds., Voyage to the Other World: the Legacy of Sutton Hoo, Medieval Studies at Minnesota 5 (1992) M. L. W. Laistner, The Intellectual Heritage of Western Europe (1957) R. A. Markus, Gregory the Great and a Papal Missionary Strategy, in G. J. Cuming ed. The Mission of the Church and the Propagation of Faith (1970), pp R. A. Markus, Gregory the Great s Europe, Transactions of the Royal Historical Society 31, 5 th series (1981), R. A. Markus, Gregory the Great and his World (1997) R. A. Markus, Augustine and Gregory the Great, in R. Gameson ed., St Augustine and the Conversion of England (1999), pp H. Mayr- Harting, The Coming of Christianity to Anglo-Saxon England (1972), 3 rd ed. (1991) A. Meaney, A Gazetteer of Early Anglo-Saxon Burial Sites (1964) A. Meaney and S. C. Hawkes, Two Anglo-Saxon Cemeteries at Winnall (1970) A. Meaney, Paganism, in M. Lapidge et at. eds., The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Anglo- Saxon England (1999), pp R. Meens, A Background to Augustine s Mission to Anglo- Saxon England, Anglo-Saxon England 23 (1994), 5-17 M. A. Meyer, Queens, Convents, and Conversion in Early Anglo- Saxon England, Revue bénédictine 109 (1999), P. Meyvaert, Benedict, Gregory, Bede and Others (1977) 4

5 P. Meyvaert, Le libellus responsionum à Augustin de Cantorbéry une oeuvre authentique de saint Grégoire le Grand, in J. Fontaine, et al. eds., Grégoire le Grand (1986), pp R. Morris, The Church in British Archaeology, Council for British Archaeology, Research Report 47 (1983) S. Newton, The Origins of Beowulf and the Pre-Viking Kingdom of East Anglia (1993) J. Newman, Sutton Hoo before Raedwald, Current Archaeology 15.2 (2002), J. Niles, Pagan Survivals and Popular Beliefs, in M. Lapidge and M. Godden eds., The Cambridge Companion to Old English Literature (1991), pp R. North, Heathen Gods in Old English Literature (1997) L. Oliver, Cyninges fedesl: the King s Feeding in Æthelberht, ch. 12, Anglo-Saxon England 27 (1998), L. Oliver, The Beginnings of English Law (2002) G. Owen, Rites and Religion of the Anglo-Saxons (1981) R. I. Page, Life in Anglo-Saxon England (1970), pp R. I. Page, Anglo- Saxon Paganism: the Evidence of Bede, in T. Hofstra et al. eds., Pagans and Christians, Mediaevalia Groningana 16 (1995), pp A. Pluskowski, The Archaeology of Paganism, in H. Hamerow, D. A. Hinton and S. Crawford eds., The Oxford Handbook of Anglo-Saxon Archaeology (2011), pp M. Richter, Practical Aspects of the Conversion of the Anglo- Saxons, in P. Ní Chatháin and M. Richter eds., Irland und die Christenheit (1987), pp A. Scharer, La conversion des rois anglo- saxons, in M. Rouche ed., Clovis: Histoire et Mémoire 1, Actes de Colloque international d histoire de Reims 1996 (1997), pp A. Scharer, The Gregorian Tradition in Early England, in R. Gameson ed., St Augustine and the Conversion of England (1999), pp S. Semple, Sacred Spaces and Places in Pre- Christian and Conversion Period Anglo- Saxon England, in H. Hamerow, D. A. Hinton and S. Crawford eds., The Oxford Handbook of Anglo-Saxon Archaeology (2011), pp S. Semple, Perceptions of the Prehistoric in Anglo-Saxon England.Religion, Ritual and Rulership in the Landscape (2013) P. Sims- Williams, Religion and Literature in Western England , Cambridge Studies in Anglo- Saxon England 3 (1990) A. M. Stahl, The Nature of the Sutton Hoo Coin Parcel, in C. B. Kendall and P. S. Wells eds., Voyage to the Other World: the Legacy of Sutton Hoo, Medieval Studies at Minnesota 5 (1992), pp F. M. Stenton, Anglo- Saxon Heathenism, in D. M. Stenton ed., Preparatory to Anglo- Saxon England, being the Collected Papers of Frank Merry Stenton (1970), pp J. Stevenson, Christianity in Sixth- and Seventh- Century Southumbria, in M. Carver ed. The Age of Sutton Hoo: the Seventh Century in North-Western Europe (1992), pp R. E. Sullivan, The Carolingian Missionary and the Pagan, Speculum 28 (1953), R. E. Sullivan, The Papacy and Missionary Activity in the Early Middle Ages, Medieval Studies 17 (1955), R. E. Sullivan, Christian Missionary Activity in the Early Middle Ages (1994) A. Thacker, Memorializing Gregory the Great: the Origin and Transmission of a Papal Cult in the Seventh and Early Eighth Centuries, Early Medieval Europe 7.1 (1998), A. Thacker, In Gregory s Shadow? The Pre- Conquest Cult of Augustine, in R. Gameson ed., St Augustine and the Conversion of England (1999), pp A. Thacker, Peculiaris Patronus Noster: the Saint as Patron of the State in the Early Middle Ages, in J.R. Maddicott and D.M. Palliser eds., The Medieval State: Essays presented to James Campbell (2000), pp

6 A. Thacker, England in the Seventh Century, in P. Fouracre ed., The New Cambridge Medieval History I: c (2005), pp E. A. Thompson, Procopius on Brittia and Britannia, Classical Quarterly, New Series 30 (1980), W. Ullman, A Short History of the Papacy in the Middle Ages (1972), pp J. M. Wallace- Hadrill, Bede s Ecclesiastical History of the English People : a Historical Commentary, Oxford Medieval Texts (1988) L. Webster and Jack Backhouse eds., The Making of England: Anglo-Saxon Art and Culture AD (1991), pp L. Webster, Taplow Burial in M. Lapidge et at. eds., The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Anglo-Saxon England (1999), pp D. Whitelock, The Beginnings of English Society (1952), pp D. Wilson, A Note on OE hearg and weoh as Place- Name Elements Representing Different Types of Pagan Saxon Worship Sites, Anglo-Saxon Studies in Archaeology and History 4 (1985), D. Wilson, Anglo-Saxon Paganism (1992) I. Wood, The Conversion of the Barbarian Peoples, in G. Barraclough ed., The Christian World (1981), pp I. Wood, The Merovingian North Sea (1983) I. Wood, Frankish Hegemony in England, in M. Carver ed., The Age of Sutton Hoo: the Seventh Century in North-Western Europe (1992), pp I. Wood, The Mission of Augustine of Canterbury to the English, Speculum 69 (1994), 1-17 I. Wood, Before and After the Migration to Britain, in J. Hines ed., The Anglo-Saxons from the Migration Period to the Eighth Century: an Ethnographic Perspective (1997), pp I. Wood, Conversion, in M. Lapidge et at. eds., The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Anglo- Saxon England (1999), pp I. Wood, Augustine and Gaul, in R. Gameson ed., St Augustine and the Conversion of England (1999), pp I. Wood, The Missionary Life: Saints and the Evangelisation of Europe (2001) I. Wood, Christianisation and the Dissemination of Christian Learning in P. Fourace ed., The New Cambridge Medieval History, I: c.500 c.700 (2005), pp P. Wormald, Bede, Beowulf, and the Conversion of the Anglo- Saxon Aristocracy, in R. T. Farrell ed. Bede and Anglo-Saxon England, British Archaeological Reports, British Series 46 (1978), 32-95; rept. in P. Wormald, ed. S. Baxter, The Times of Bede: Studies in Early English Christian Society and its Historian (2006), pp P. Wormald, The Age of Bede and Æthelbald, in J. Campbell ed., The Anglo-Saxons (1982), pp B. A. E. Yorke, The Reception of Christianity at the Anglo- Saxon Royal Courts;, in in R. Gameson ed., St Augustine and the Conversion of England (1999), pp B. A. E. Yorke, The Adaptation of Anglo- Saxon Royal Courts to Christianity; in M. Carver ed., The Cross Goes North: Processes of Conversion in Northern Europe, AD (2003), pp B. A. E. Yorke, The Conversion of Britain: Religion, Politics and Society in Britain, c (2006) Online Resources Museum of London, ; for Prittlewell see, projects/prittlewell- Prince/ 6

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