Full Index ‘A’

Abbasid Caliphate 58

Abbott, George, Archbishop of Canterbury 322, 335

abdication crisis (1936) 520, 529

Abelard, Peter 106, 141, 142, 167–8

Abingdon Abbey 70–1, 93

abolition movement 416–22, 482, 589

abortion 546, 565

Abortion Act (1966) 546

Achilli, Giacinto 494

Acorn Christian Healing Trust 562

Act in Restraint of Annates 252–3

Act in Restraint of Appeals 252

Act of Succession

(1534) 259

(1701) 377

Act of Supremacy

(1534) 253, 259

(1559) 297–8, 306

Act of Uniformity

(1549) 274, 277, 278, 279

repealed under Queen Mary (1554) 286

(1559) 297, 306

(1662) 354

Act of Union (1800) 411, 414, 426, 453

Actium, Battle of (31 BC) 6

acts (works) of mercy 185–6

Adelphius, Bishop of Lincoln 15

Adminius (son of Catuvellauni chieftan) 7

Adomnan, Abbot of Iona 35–6

advowsons 434, 486

Aelfgifu 76, 77

Aelfric (Saxon scholar) 70, 71, 72, 217

Aelred of Rievaulx 142

Aethelberht, king of Wessex 61

Aethelflaed, queen of Mercia 62, 66, 74

Aethelfrith, king of the Northumbrians 32

Aethelnoth, Archbishop of Canterbury 77

Aethelred, king of Mercia 62

Aethelred II, king of the Anglo-Saxons 65

Aethelred the Unready, king of the English 74, 75, 76, 84

Aethelstan, Bishop of Mercia 63

Aethelwig, Abbot of Evesham 92

Aethelwold 66

Aethelwulf, king of Wessex 56

Africa, missionaries to 434, 483–4

agape 192

Agatho, Pope 39, 42

Agilbert, Bishop 39

Agincourt, Battle of (1415) 221, 222–3

agnosticism 539

Agricola, Roman general 10

Aidan of Lindisfarne 19, 33, 36–7, 44, 53

Aix-la-Chapelle (Aachen) 443

Akinola, Peter, Bishop 570

Alban, St 3, 14, 17

Albert, Prince Consort 437, 451, 454–5, 465, 467

Albert the Great (Albertus Magnus) 167, 178

Albigensians 143

Alchin, William 532

Alcuin of York 53, 55, 58–9, 72, 115, 158, 584

Aldfrith, king of the Northumbrians 43

Aldhelm, Bishop of Sherborne 50, 583

Alexander I, Tsar 423

Alexander III, King of Scotland 128

Alexander III, Pope 78, 110, 112

Alexander of Hales 169, 178

Alexandra, Queen 499

Alexius I Comnenus 115–16

Alfred, King (Alfred the Great) 46, 56, 60–5, 69, 115, 582

Alfrith, son of Oswy of Northumberland 38–9

Alhfrith, king of the Northumbrians 41

Alice of Hess, Princess 474

All Souls, Langham Place 541, 549, 550

Allen, William, Cardinal 307, 310

almsgiving 185–6

Alnwick Castle 91

Alpha courses 562–3, 574

Alphege, Archbishop of Canterbury 76, 94

Alternative Service Book (1980) 561

alum 238

Ambrose, St 93, 129

Ambrosius Aurelianaus 25

American Anglican Council 569

American Church in North America (ACNA) 571

American colonies

Pilgrim Fathers 330–1

founding of Pennsylvania 355

British seizure of New York 357

missionaries to 385

George Whitfield’s ministry in 397

Wesley’s ministry in 394–5

British loss of 407–8, 481

 see also United States of America (USA)

American Declaration of Independence (1776) 408

Amnesty International 551

Anabaptists 270, 338, 347

Anatolius, Bishop of Laodicea 38

Andrewes, Lancelot 321–2, 364

Angles 26, 29

Anglican Mission in England 571

Anglicanism 280, 314–17, 345

Anglo-Catholicism 469, 507, 520, 563

Anglo-Dutch War (Second; 1665–67) 356–7

Anglo-Saxon Chronicle 27, 55, 68, 73, 77

Anglo-Saxons

migration to Britain 23–6

kingdoms 26–8

paganism 27–8

conversion to Christianity 28–37

and the Church 68–73

legal system 84

Anne, Queen 357, 375–7

Anne of Bohemia 211

Anne of Cleves 265, 267

Anne of Denmark 319, 324

Annesley, Samuel 392

Anselm, St (Abbot of Bec; Archbishop of Canterbury) 94, 96–101, 103–4, 165–7, 216–17

Anselm of Laon 167

Anskar, St 60

anti-Catholic legislation 302, 303, 307–8, 323–4, 332, 346, 360–1, 414, 426, 442, 458

anticlericalism 249, 250

Antioch, Syria 117

anti-Semitism 128–32, 389

anti-Trinitarianism 366, 382, 391

Antonine Wall 11

Antony the Great 34

Anwykyll, John 260

Aquinas, Thomas 115, 161–4, 170–1, 178–9, 214, 216

Archimedes 157

ARCIC (Anglican Roman Catholic International Commission) 554, 557

Arianism 366, 446, 462, 549

Aristotle 157, 161–4, 173, 177, 214

Arkwright, Richard 411

Arles, Council of (313) 14–15

Armenia/ Armenians 192, 480

Arminius/ Arminianism 333, 400

Arnold, Matthew 470, 476

Arnold, Thomas 439–40

Ars Moriendi 183

Arthur, Prince of Wales 237, 242, 245

Arthurian legend 25–6, 134

Arundel, Thomas, Archbishop 217, 227

Ascham, Roger 294

Ashley, Evelyn 478

Asia, missionaries to 484–5

Aske, Robert 256

Asquith, Herbert 500, 504, 505, 510

Assemblies of God 527

Assize Sermon (1833) 445

Aston, John 220

Athanasian Creed 447

Athanasius, Bishop of Alexandria 166–7

Athelbald, king of Mercia 52

Athelney marshes 62, 66

Athelstan, king of the English 65, 66–7

Athelwulf, king of Wessex 60–1

Atrebates (Gaulish tribe) 4, 5

Atterbury, Francis 376–7

Attlee, Clement 534, 535–6

Aubrey, John 362

Augsburg Confession (1530) 270–1

Augustine of Canterbury 29–31, 53, 63, 146, 189

Augustine of Hippo

and the Augustinians 141

on holy war 114–15

influence on Christian thought 158, 312

influence on Wyclif 216, 219

on the Jews 130

and the Pelagian controversy 16–17

Platonic influence 160–1, 164

and St Anselm 96–7, 165

Confessions 172, 199, 596

De doctrina christiana 168

De Trinitate 177

Augustinians 140, 141, 144

Augustus Caesar (Octavian) 6–7

Aulus Plautius (Roman commander) 7

Austen, Jane 416, 433–4, 435

Austerfield, Synod of (702/3) 43

Australia, transportation of convicts to 422, 438

Averroes (Ibn Rushd) 164

Ayer, A. J. 539–40, 545