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Notes

1. The classic studies are Wainwright 1955 and Henderson 1967. More recent scholarly works include Friell and Watson 1984, Ritchie 1989, Cummins 1995, and Nicoll 1995.

2. Classic studies of the early English include Stenton 1971, Campbell 1982, and Myres 1986. See also Evison 1981, Bassett 1989, and Welch 1992.

3. The current standard edition of Patrick's writings is Hood 1978. For recent Patrician scholarship, see Dronke 1981:21-38, Thompson 1985, Dumville et al. 1993, and Howlett 1994.

4. The standard edition of Gildas' writings is Winterbottom 1978. For recent scholarship on Gildas, see Kerlouégan 1968:151-76 and 1987, and especially Lapidge and Dumville 1984.

5. For all relevant passages, see chap. 3 of Snyder 1998.

6. The Latin text can be found in Mommsen 1826, 9:617-66. For recent scholarship concerning the British passages, see Muhlberger 1983:23-33 and 1990, Jones and Casey 1988:367-97 and 1991:212-15, and Burgess 1990:185-95.

7. An accessible English edition of the Life can be found in Noble and Head 1995. For recent scholarship, see Mathisen 1981:151-59, Thompson 1984, and Wood (Lapidge and Dumville 1984:1-26).

8. The first modern work to do this was Jackson 1953/1994. For more recent epigraphic studies, see Thomas 1994 and Knight 1996:109-20.

9. For recent developments among Anglo-Saxonists on the adventus, see Böhme 1986:469-574, Welch 1993:269-77, and Härke 1989:49-61.

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