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• Church history -- Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600
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• Monasticism and religious orders -- Early church, ca. 30-600

• The Lausiac History of Palladius (London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge; New York: Macmillan, c1918), by Bishop of Aspuna Palladius, ed. by W. K. Lowther Clarke
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

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• Simoniacal Entry into Religious Life from 1000 to 1260: A Social, Economic, and Legal Study (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1976), by Joseph H. Lynch
  • PDF at Ohio State
  • PDF files with commentary at Ohio State Press
• Sacred Heritage: Monastic Archaeology, Identities, Beliefs (Cambridge, UK et al.: Cambridge University Press, 2020), by Roberta Gilchrist (HTML and PDF files at Cambridge University Press)
• The Early Days of Monasticism on Mount Athos (Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1909), by Kirsopp Lake
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Woman Under Monasticism: Chapters on Saint-Lore and Convent Life Between A.D. 500 and A.D. 1500 (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1896), by Lina Eckenstein (HTML at Wisconsin)

• The Autobiography of Guibert, Abbot of Nogentsous-Coucy, by Guibert of Nogent, trans. by C. C. Swinton Bland (HTML at Fordham)

• Spanish and Portuguese Monastic History, by Charles Julian Bishko (PDF files at Libro)

• Spanish and Portuguese Monastic History, by Charles Julian Bishko (PDF files at Libro)

• Les Hospitaliers à Rhodes, 1310-1421 (in French; Paris: E. Leroux, 1913), by J. Delaville Le Roulx (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Les Hospitaliers à Rhodes, 1310-1421 (in French; Paris: E. Leroux, 1913), by J. Delaville Le Roulx (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• 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)
• The Ancient Church: Its History, Doctrine, Worship, and Constitution, Traced for the First Three Hundred Years (1859), by W. D. Killen (Gutenberg text)
• Annales (Corpus Scriptorum Christianorum Orientalum, Scriptores Arabici Textus series 3, books 6 and 7 bound in one volume; main text in Arabic, notes in Latin; Paris: C. Poussielgue; Leipzig: O. Harrassowitz, 1906-1909), by Patriarch of Alexandria Eutychius, ed. by Louis Cheikho, Bernard Carra de Vaux, and Ḥabīb Zayyāt, contrib. by Yaḥyá ibn Saʻīd Anṭākī
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• 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 (7 volumes; London: Mathieson and Co., ca. 1890), by Ernest Renan
  • all volumes (some from other editions): page images at HathiTrust
  • Book I (Life of Jesus): multiple formats at CCEL
  • Book II (The Apostles): multiple formats at CCEL
  • Book III (Saint Paul): multiple formats at CCEL
  • Book IV (The Antichrist): multiple formats at CCEL
  • Book V (The Gospels): multiple formats at CCEL
  • Book VI (The Reigns of Hadrian and Antoninus Pius): multiple formats at CCEL
  • Book VII (Marcus-Aurelius): multiple formats at CCEL
• Landmarks in the History of Early Christianity (New York: The Macmillan Company, 1922), by Kirsopp Lake (HTML at earlychristianwritings.com)
• 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)
• 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)
• Studien zur Geschichte und Kultur des Altertums (in German; 1907-1942) (partial serial archives)
• 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)
• Kirche und Staat bis zur Gründung der Staatskirche (reprinted from Kultur der Gegenwart v1, pt. 4; ca. 1906), by Adolf von Harnack (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• 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

• Callista: A Tale of the Third Century (London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1901), by John Henry Newman (HTML at newmanreader.org)
• The Wrestler of Philippi: A Tale of the Early Christians (revised edition; Elgin, IL and Chicago: D. C. Cook, c1897), by Fannie E. Newberry (page images at HathiTrust)
• Quo Vadis: A Narrative of the Time of Nero, by Henryk Sienkiewicz, trans. by Jeremiah Curtin (Gutenberg text)

• The Lion and the Cross: Early Christianity in Victorian Novels (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2009), by Royal W. Rhodes (PDF at Ohio State)

• The People That History Forgot, by Ernest L. Martin (HTML with commentary at askelm.com)

• Bessarione (in Italian; US access only) (partial serial archives)

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