The English Church in the Middle Ages

CHAPTER I.

_ROME AND IONA._

ST. AUGUSTIN'S MISSION--POPE GREGORY'S SCHEME OF ORGANIZATION--CAUSES OF ITS FAILURE--FOUNDATION AND OVERTHROW OF THE SEE OF YORK--INDEPENDENT MISSIONS--THE SEE OF LINDISFARNE--SCOTTISH CHRISTIANITY--THE SCHISM--THE SYNOD OF WHITBY--RESTORATION OF THE SEE OF YORK.

[Sidenote: St. Augustin's landing at Ebbsfleet, 597.]

The G...