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• Vox Populi: Popular Opinion and Violence in the Religious Controversies of the Fifth Century A.D. (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1979), by Timothy E. Gregory
  • PDF files at Ohio State Press
  • PDF at Ohio State
• Before Jerusalem Fell: Dating the Book of Revelation (Tyler, TX: Institute for Christian Economics, c1989), by Kenneth L. Gentry (PDF with commentary at garynorth.com)
• People, Personal Expression, and Social Relations in Late Antiquity (2 volumes; Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2003), by Ralph W. Mathisen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Landmarks in the History of Early Christianity (New York: The Macmillan Company, 1922), by Kirsopp Lake (HTML at earlychristianwritings.com)
• The Ancient Church: Its History, Doctrine, Worship, and Constitution, Traced for the First Three Hundred Years (1859), by W. D. Killen (Gutenberg text)
• Annales Ecclesiastici (37 volumes in Latin; Barri-Ducis et al., 1864-1883), by Cesare Baronio, Odorico Rinaldi, Giacomo Laderchi, and Augustin Theiner (page images at HathiTrust)
• Antiqua Mater: A Study of Christian Origins (London: Trübner and Co., 1887), by E. Johnson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Christian Ecclesia: A Course of Lectures on the Early History and Early Conceptions of the Ecclesia, and One Sermon, by Fenton John Anthony Hort (multiple formats at CCEL)
• Church History, by Eusebius of Caesarea (HTML at New Advent)
• The Church in Rome in the First Century, by George Edmundson (multiple formats at CCEL)
• The Early Church, From Ignatius to Augustine, by George Hodges (HTML at Gateway to the Classics)
• Ecclesiastical History: A History of the Church in Six Books, From A.D. 431 to A.D. 594, by Scholasticus Evagrius, trans. by Edward Walford (HTML with commentary at tertullian.org)
• The Epistles of St. Ignatius (second edition, 2 volumes; London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1910), by Saint Ignatius, ed. by J. H. Srawley
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
• Eusebius Pamphilus: His Ten Books of Ecclesiastical History, Faithfully Translated and Abridg'd from the Original (London: Printed for G. Sawbridge, 1703), by Eusebius of Caesarea, ed. by Samuel Parker, contrib. by Charles Leslie (illustrated HTML with commentary at elfinspell.com)
• History of the Early Church From the First Preaching of the Gospel to the Council of Nicea, For the Use of Young Persons (New York: D. Appleton, 1860), by Elizabeth Missing Sewell (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The History of the Origins of Christianity (London: Mathieson and Company, ca. 1890), by Ernest Renan
  • Book I: multiple formats at CCEL
  • Book II: multiple formats at CCEL
  • Book III: multiple formats at CCEL
  • Book IV: multiple formats at CCEL
  • Book V: multiple formats at CCEL
  • Book VI: multiple formats at CCEL
  • Book VII: multiple formats at CCEL
• The Mission and Expansion of Christianity in the First Three Centuries, by Adolf von Harnack, trans. by James Moffatt (multiple formats at CCEL)
• The Third Part of the Ecclesiastical History of John, Bishop of Ephesus, Now First Translated From the Original Syriac, by John, Bishop of Ephesus, trans. by R. Payne Smith (HTML at tertullian.org)
• The Acts of the Apostles in the Proclamation of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, by Ellen G. White (HTML at whiteestate.org)
• Apostolic Christianity: or, The People's Antidote Against Romanism and Puseyism (London: J. Snow, et al., 1842), by James Godkin (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Gnostics and Their Remains, Ancient and Mediaeval (second edition; London: David Nutt, 1887), by C. W. King (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
• La Primauté de Pierre, et la Venue de Pierre à Rome: Étude Critique (in French; Paris: Émile Nourry, 1909), by Charles Guignebert (page images at HathiTrust)
• Orthodoxy and Heresy in Earliest Christianity, by Walter Bauer, ed. by Robert A. Kraft and Gerhard Krodel (HTML at jewishchristianlit.com)
• The Pupils of St. John the Divine, by Charlotte M. Yonge (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Saints and Heroes to the End of the Middle Ages (New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1911), by George Hodges (illustrated HTML at Gateway to the Classics)
• The Syriac Chronicle Known as That of Zachariah of Mitylene, by Zacharias, Bishop of Mytilene, trans. by F. J. Hamilton and E. W. Brooks (HTML at tertullian.org)
• Syriac Miscellanies: or, Extracts Relating to the First and Second General Councils, and Various Other Quotations, Theological, Historical and Classical, ed. by Benjamin Harris Cowper (HTML at tertullian.org)
• Egyptian Mythology and Egyptian Christianity, by Samuel Sharpe (illustrated HTML at sacred-texts.com)
• The Gospels in the Second Century: An Examination of the Critical Part of a Work Entitled "Supernatural Religion" (1876), by W. Sanday (Gutenberg text)
• Paganism and Pagan Survivals in Spain up to the Fall of the Visigothic Kingdom, by Stephen McKenna (PDF files at LIBRO)
• The Book of the Popes (Liber Pontificalis), I: To the Pontificate of Gregory I (no more volumes known to be published in this edition; New York: Columbia University Press, 1916), ed. by Louise Ropes Loomis (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Le Liber Pontificalis: Texte, Introduction et Commentaire (2 volumes, in French and Latin; Paris: E. Thorin, 1886-1892), ed. by L. Duchesne
  • Book 1: page images at HathiTrust; US access only
  • Book 2: page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Iosephi Binghami, Angli, Origines siue antiquitates ecclesiasticae / ex lingua Anglicana in Latinam vertit Io. Henricus Grischouius ... ; accedit praefatio Io. Franc. Buddei ... (Halae : Sumtibus Orphanotrophei, 1724-1729), by Joseph Bingham (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gottfried Arnolds Wahre Abbildung der ersten Christen, nach ihrem lebendigen Glauben und heiligen Leben, aus der ältesten und bewähresten Kirchenscribenten eigenen Zeugnissen, Exempeln und Reden ... als in einer nützlichen Kirchen-Historie, treulich und unparteyisch entworfen ; worinnen zugleich des Hn. William Cave Erstes Christenthum nach Nothdurft erläutert wird .... Mit einer Vorrede D. Siegmund Jacob Baumgartens. (Leipzig : C. H. Fuchs, 1740), by Gottfried Arnold (page images at HathiTrust)
• De rebus sacris & ecclesiasticis exercitationes historico-criticae. In quibus Cardinalis Baronii Annales, ab anno Christi XXXV, in quo Casaubonus desiit, expenduntur: tum & multa adversus Bellarminum, Lightfootum, Pagium, & alios discutiuntur; plurimique historiae & chronologiae errores emendantur ... (Ultrajecti : G. vande Water, 1692), by Samuel Basnage (page images at HathiTrust)
• The catacombs of Rome, (New York, Nelson & Phillips; [etc., etc.], 1874), by W Withrow (page images at HathiTrust)
• Callista : a sketch of the 3rd century / by Cardinal Newman. (London : Burns & Oates, [1856]), by John Henry Newman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Callista : a sketch of the third century / by John Henry Newman. (London : Burns and Oates, 1881), by John Henry Newman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Constantine the Great; (New York, London, G. P. Putnam's sons, 1905), by John B Firth (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Christian doctrine and practice in the second century. (Philadelphia : Lea and Blanchard, 1846), by Clement of Alexandria (page images at HathiTrust)
• Christianity and Greek philosophy; (New York, Harper & brothers, 1870), by B. F. Cocker (page images at HathiTrust)
• Constantine the Great: The reorganization of the Empire and the triumph of the Church, by John B. Firth (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Early Christians in Rome, by H. D. M. Spence-Jones (Gutenberg ebook)
• Kertomuksia kirkkohistorian alalta 1: Vanha aika (in Finnish), by Mauno Rosendal (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Catacombs of Rome, and Their Testimony Relative to Primitive Christianity, by W. H. Withrow (Gutenberg ebook)
• English Conferences of Ernest Renan: Rome and Christianity. Marcus Aurelius, by Ernest Renan, trans. by Clara Erskine Clement Waters (Gutenberg ebook)
• Curiosities of Christian History Prior to the Reformation, by James Paterson (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Conflict of Religions in the Early Roman Empire, by T. R. Glover (Gutenberg ebook)
• Church and State as Seen in the Formation of Christendom, by T. W. Allies (Gutenberg ebook)
• L'Imperatore Giuliano l'Apostata: studio storico (in Italian), by Gaetano Negri (Gutenberg ebook)
• Dissertatiunculae Quaedam Critico-Theologicae (in Latin), by John Henry Newman (Gutenberg ebook)
• Sketches of Church History, from A.D. 33 to the Reformation, by James Craigie Robertson (Gutenberg ebook)
• Landmarks in the History of Early Christianity, by Kirsopp Lake (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Holy See and the Wandering of the Nations, from St. Leo I to St. Gregory I, by T. W. Allies (Gutenberg ebook)
• Christianity and Greek Philosophy: or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles, by B. F. Cocker (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Basis of Early Christian Theism, by Lawrence Thomas Cole (Gutenberg ebook)
• A Key to the Knowledge of Church History (Ancient), by John Henry Blunt (Gutenberg ebook)
• Historical Sketches, Volume I (of 3): The Turks in Their Relation to Europe; Marcus Tullius Cicero; Apollonius of Tyana; Primitive Christianity, by John Henry Newman (Gutenberg ebook)
• Life in the Roman World of Nero and St. Paul, by T. G. Tucker (Gutenberg ebook)
• A prospect of the primitive Christianity, as it was left by Christ to his Apostles, by the Apostles to their disciples Saint Polycarp and Holy Ignatius, both contemporaries with and disciples to the Holy Evangelist and Apostle Saint John whose lives follow in this short treatise, together with their famous epistles written to several churches / translated according to the best copies out of the original Greek into English, by Thomas Elborowe ... (In the Savoy : Printed by Tho. Newcomb for William Grantham ..., 1668), by Thomas Elborow, Saint Polycarp, and Saint Ignatius (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Ecclesiastical history. English (London : Printed for Francis Holden, 1698), by of Caesarea Eusebius and William Caton (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Ecclesiastical history. English (Cambridge : Printed by John Hayes ... for Han. Sawbridge ..., 1683), by of Caesarea Eusebius, Scholasticus Socrates, and Scholasticus Evagrius (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A most excellent and pathetical oration, or, Declamation of Gregory Nazianzen's stigmatizing, and condemning the Emperor Julian for his apostatising from the truth and containing, by way of history, the persecution of the Christians during his reign, the confutation of pagan abominations and the obscenity, as well as absurdity, both of the substance and ceremonies of their pretended religion, with respect unto its doctrine and the ... ceremonies approved of among the primitive Christians. (London : Printed by W. Godbid for H. Herringman ..., 1662), by of Nazianzus Gregory (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Archaioskopia, or, A view of antiquity presented in a short but sufficient account of some of the fathers, men famous in their generations who lived within, or near the first three hundred years after Christ : serving as a light to the studious, that they may peruse with better judgment and improve to greater advantage the venerable monuments of those eminent worthies / by J.H. (London : Printed for Thomas Parkhurst and Jonathan Robinson, 1677), by Jonathan Hanmer, John Howe, and James Howell (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Dissertation concerning the antiquity of churches wherein is shewn, that the Christians in the two first centuries, had no such publick separate places for worship, as the papists generally, and some Protestants also presume, and plead for. (London : Printed for Tho. Parkhurst ..., 1698), by Joseph Hill (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Julian's arts to undermine and extirpate Christianity together with answers to Constantius the Apostate, and Jovian / by Samuel Johnson. (London : Printed by J.D. for the author, and are to be sold by Richard Chiswell ..., and Jonathan Robinson ..., 1689), by Samuel Johnson, Emperor of Rome Constantius II, and Emperor of Rome Jovian (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• An enquiry into the constitution, discipline, unity & worship of the primitive church that flourished within the first three hundred years after Christ faithfully collected out of the extant writings of those ages / by an impartial hand. (London : Printed for Jonathan Robinson ... and John Wyat ..., 1691), by Peter King King (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Constantius the Apostate being a short account of his life and the sense of the primitive Christians about his succession and their behaviour toward him : wherein is shown the unlawfulness of excluding the next heir upon the account of religion, and the necessity of passive obedience, as well to the unlawfull oppressour, as the legal persecutour : being a full answer to a late pamphlet intituled Julian the Apostate, &c. (London : Printed for Walter Kettilby, 1683), by John Bennet (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Primitive Christianity, or, The religion of the ancient Christians in the first ages of the Gospel in three parts / by William Cave. (London : Printed by J.M. for Richard Chiswell ..., 1675), by William Cave (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The church history clear'd from the Roman forgeries and corruptions found in the councils and Baronius in four parts : from the beginning of Christianity, to the end of the fifth general council, 553 / by Thomas Comber ... (London : Printed for Samuel Roycroft, for Robert Clavell ..., 1695), by Thomas Comber (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Third treatise of the first part of ancient church-government. (Oxford printed : [s.n.], MDCLXXXVIII [1688]), by R. H. (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A treatise of the episcopacy, liturgies, and ecclesiastical ceremonies of the primitive times and of the mutations which happened to them in the succeeding ages gathered out of the works of the ancient fathers and doctors of the church / by John Lloyd, B.D., presbyter of the church of North-Mimmes in Hertfordshire. (London : Printed by W.G. for John Sherley ... and Robert Littlebury ..., M. DC. LX. [1660]), by John Lloyd (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A vindication of the primitive church, and diocesan episcopacy in answer to Mr. Baxter's Church history of bishops, and their councils abridged : as also to some part of his Treatise of episcopacy. (London : Printed for Moses Pitt ..., 1682), by Henry Maurice (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Remarques relating to the state of the church of the first centuries wherein are intersperst animadversions on J.H.'s View of antiquity. (London : Printed for Ric. Chiswell, 1680), by Abednego Seller (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Apostolici, or, The history of the lives, acts, death, and martyrdoms of those who were contemporary with, or immediately succeeded the apostles as also the most eminent of the primitive fathers for the first three hundred years : to which is added, a chronology of the three first ages of the church / by William Cave ... (London : Printed by A.C. for Richard Chiswel ..., 1677), by William Cave (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Moeurs des Chrétiens. English (London : Printed for Thomas Leigh ..., 1698), by Claude Fleury (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• An account of the government of the Christian church for the first six hundred years by Samuel Parker. (London : Printed for John Baker ..., MDCLXXXII [1683]), by Samuel Parker (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Dissertation preliminaire ou prélogomènes sur la Bible. English (London : Printed for H. Roades ..., T. Bennet ..., A. Bell ..., D. Midwinter, and T. Leigh ..., 1699-1700), by Louis Ellies Du Pin (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Lux matutina, or, Some beams and dawnings of early light breaking forth of ancient history discovering the judgement and practice of the primitive times in reference to ceremonies and church-discipline. ([London : s.n.], 1662) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

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