Author:John Allen Giles

John Allen Giles
(1808–1884)

John Allen Giles

Works

• Life and Letters of Thomas à Becket (1845), in 2 vols.
• The History of Bampton (1847–8), in 2 vols.
• History of the Ancient Britons (1847), in 2 vols.
• Life and Times of Alfred the Great (1848)
• Six Old English Chronicles (1848)
• Hebrew Records on the age and authenticity of the books of the Old Testament (1850)
• The History of Witney and some neighbouring Parishes (1852)
• Christian Records on the Age, Authorship, and Authenticity of the Books of the New Testament (1854)
• First Lessons on Various Subjects
• Keys to the Classics
• Patres Ecclesiæ Anglicanæ, in thirty-four volumes.

Editor

• Anecdota Bædæ et aliorum
• Benedictus Abbas
• de Vita S. Thomæ
• Chronicon Angliae Petriburgense
• La révolte du Conte de Warwick
• Vitæ quorundam Anglo-Saxonum
• Scriptores rerum gestarum Willelmi Conquestoris

Translator

• Matthew Paris (1847)
• History of the Britons, attributed to Nennius
• History of the Kings of Britain (1842), by Geoffrey of Monmouth (1136)
• Lives of the holy abbots of Wearmouth and Jarrow by Bede (8th century)
• Chronicles of the Crusades (1908), portion by Richard of Devizes (transcription project)
• The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (1914)
• Flowers of History by Roger of Wendover

Works about Giles

• "Giles, John Allen," in Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886, by Joseph Foster, London: Parker and Co. (1888–1892) in 4 vols.
• "Giles, John Allen," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.

Mentions

• List of Carthusians, 1800–1879