1 1 2 Readings in European History TAYLOR, The Classical Heritage of the Middle Ages, Chapter VII. An eloquent description of the character of monasticism and its founders. Good general chapters on the origin and spread of monastic institu- tions are to be found in works already mentioned. NEWMAN, Manual of Church History, Chapter III, sections 10 and n; SCHAFF, History of the Christian Church, Vol. IV, Chapter II; MILMAN, History of Latin Christianity, Book III, Chapter VI, on Western Monasticism in Gen- eral ; Book IV, Chapters III and IV, Conversion of England; Book IV, Chapter V, Conversion of the Germans. HERON, The Celtic Church in Ireland. The story of the work of St. Patrick, with an account of the sources of his life. POOLE, Ilhistrations of the History of Mediceval Thought, Introduc- tion. A valuable summary of the work of the Irish schools. The Fathers fo r English Readers. This series contains reliable, short, and convenient biographies of St. Jerome and St. Boniface. CUTTS, Augustine of Canterbury, and MASON, The Mission of St. Augustine according to the Original Documents, furnish and discuss the material for the life of the missionary to England. COOKE, The Life and Work of St. Columba, an interesting narrative of the labors of the "Apostle of Caledonia" (d. 598), who planted the Celtic church on the shores of Scotland. ADAMNANUS, Vita S. Columbae, edited with a translation by Fowler. An excellent edition of one of the very few absolutely contemporary lives of an early mediaeval saint. One of the few sources for conditions in Ireland and Scotland during this period. BEDE, Ecclesiastical History, translated by Giles (Latin and English on opposite pages). The great authority for the beginnings of the English Church. A type of the best early mediaeval historian. (For recent edition, see below, section C.) ZOCKLER, Askese und Monchthum, Frankfurt, 1897. Well arranged and contains full references to the whole literature of asceticism. HAUCK, Kirchengeschichte Deutschlands, 3 vols., Leipzig, 1896-1898 ; coming down to 1122. Vol. I gives the most detailed and careful account of the Christian missions in Germany to the death of Boniface. Benedicti Regula, edited by Woelfflin (Teubner). A critical edition of the text. BEDE, Opera Historica, edited by Plummer, 2 vols., Clarendon Press, 1896. The most elaborate and scholarly edition of this important source. A cheaper edition is edited by Holder, Freiburg, 1890, M. 4.50.
