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HagiographyThis page was last updated August 6th, 2023
Anthologies of primary sources
David Ayerst & A. S. T. Fisher.
Records of Christianity, vol. II: Christendom. (hb) £6.00
Ruth Kennedy, ed.
Three Alliterative Saints’ Hymns: Late Middle English Stanzaic Poems. (hb) £20.00
Sara Maitland & Wendy Mulford
Virtuous Magic: Women Saints and their Meanings. (hb) £12.00
Helen Waddell, trans.
Beasts and Saints. (hb) £8.00
Karen A. Winstead, ed. & trans.
Chaste Passions: Medieval English Virgin Martyr Legends. (hb) £15.00
Individual works — primary sources
Adriaan J. Barnouw, trans.
The Miracle of Beatrice: A Flemish Legend of c 1300. (hb) £14.50
Paschalis M. Kitromilidis and Charalampos Messis, eds.
Βιοσ 'η Μαρτυριον του εν Αργιοισ Πατροσ Ημων Ιγνατιου. (hb) £12.50
Saara Nevanlinna and Irma Taavitsainen, eds
St. Katherine of Alexandria: The late Middle English Prose Legend in Southwell Minster MS 7. (hb) £15.00
Reference
Peter Berresford Ellis
The Cornish Saints. (pb) £2.00
Allen Hinds
A Garner of Saints, being a collection of the legends and emblems usually represented in art. (hb) £14.50
Adeline Kuzan, ed.
Do You Know the Saints and their Feast Days? (pb) £1.50
Kathleen Parbury
Women of Grace: A Biographical Dictionary of British Women Saints, Martyrs and Reformers. (hb) £6.00
Michael Walsh
A Dictionary of Devotions. (hb) £10.00
Studies of individual saints
Click here for the index of saints. Books on saints who don’t yet have their own individual pages are listed below:
Frederick Bussby
Saint Swithun, Patron Saint of Winchester. (pb) £3.50
Léon Côte
Un moin de l’an mille: Saint Odilon, Abbé de Cluny de 994 à 1049. (hb) £8.00
Paul Diemer
Aelred of Rievaulx. (pb) £4.50
Christopher Donaldson
Martin of Tours: The Shaping of Celtic Spirituality. (pb) £5.00
Johannes H. Emminghaus
Peter. (hb) £7.50
David Hugh Farmer
Saint Hugh of Lincoln. (pb) £3.50
Meryl Jancey, ed.
St. Thomas Cantilupe, Bishop of Hereford: Essays in his Honour. (pb) £6.00
David Keep
St. Boniface and his World. (pb) £4.00
Iris Origo
The World of San Bernadino. (hb) £15.00
Matthew Paris
The Life of St. Edmund; trans. & ed. C. H. Lawrence. (pb) £6.00
Karl Rahner and Paul Imhof
Ignatius of Loyola; photographs by Helmuth Nils Loose. (hb) £4.00
Daphne Rance
Who was Saint Hippolytus? The Man and the Legends. (pb) £7.00
Jurgen Schultze
Mark. (hb) £7.50
Vladimir Volkoff
Vladimir the Russian Viking. (hb) £7.00
Secondary sources
Jack Dewhurst and Franco Crainz
Saints and Sickness. (hb) £15.00
E. Catherine Dunn
The Gallican Saint’s Life and the Late Roman Dramatic Tradition. (hb) £7.00
Margaret Gallyon
The Early Church in Wessex and Mercia. (hb) £5.00
Constantin de Grunwald
Saints of Russia. (hb) £8.00
Michael W. Higgins
Stalking the Holy: The Pursuit of Saint Making. (hb) £10.00
Lottie Hoare; illustrations by Stephen Pepler, Aged 6.
Stephen’s History of Saints. (pb) £3.50
William Holden Hutton
The Influence of Christianity upon National Character illustrated by the Lives and Legends of the English Saints; 2nd edn. (hb) £5.00
Chalwyn James
An Age of Saints: Its Relevance For Us Today. (pb) £4.00
Kathleen Jones
Who are the Celtic Saints? (pb) £7.00
Women Saints: Lives of Faith and Courage. (pb) £4.50
Olwen Reed
An Illustrated History of Saints and Symbols. (hb) £10.00
Jane Tibbetts Schulenburg
Forgetful of their Sex: Female Sanctity and Society ca. 500-1100. (hb) £22.00
John Vince
Discovering Saints in Britain, 3rd edn. (pb) £2.50
Books & journals containing related material
[Journal].
The Medieval Translator 4 (1994); Roger Ellis & Ruth Evans, eds.£6.00
[Journal].
Proceedings of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society. Vol. XC (2001). (pb) £8.00[Journal].
Transactions of the Royal Historical Society; 4th Series vol. XXVII (1945). (hb) £6.00
Jeffrey C. Anderson
The New York Cruciform Lectionary. (hb) £12.00
Avit de Vienne
Éloge consolatoire de la chasteté (sur la virginité); ed. Nicole Hecquet-Noti. (pb) £12.00
G. F. Browne
The Importance of Women in Anglo-Saxon Times; The Cultus of St. Peter & St. Paul; & other addresses. (hb) £15.00
Josef Hochenauer
In Search of Gertrude of Helfta in Latin America. (pb) £6.50
Paul Murray Kendall
The Art of Biography. (pb) £4.00
Andrew MacLeish, ed.
The Medieval Monastery. (pb) £20.00
Nicholas Orme
Exeter Cathedral As It Was 1050-1550. (pb) £6.00
Filippo Raffaelli and Fabio Raffaelli
Passegiate in Toscana e Umbria: Una scelta di itineri inconsueti per capire la terra dei Medici e dei Lorena, spaziando nella vicina patria dei santi e capitani di ventura. Tra storia e curiosità, due regioni ricche di suggestivi paessaggi e tradizioni gastronomiche. (hb) £6.00
Eileen Roberts
The St. William of York Mural and the Altar of the Relics in St. Albans Abbey. (pb) £10.00
Christine Sciacca
Building the Medieval World. (hb) £7.00
Mick Sharp
The Way and the Light: An Illustrated Guide to the Saints and Holy Places of Britain. (pb) £8.50
Mary Swan and Elaine M. Treharne, eds
Rewriting Old English in the Twelfth Century. (hb) £27.50
Michael Swanton, trans.
Anglo-Saxon Prose. (pb) £6.50
Shirley Toulson
Celtic Journeys in Scotland and the North of England. (pb) £2.00
Paul White
King Arthur: Man or Myth? 2nd edn. (pb) £1.50
R. M. Wilson
The Lost Literature of Medieval England; 2nd edn. (pb) £12.00
Margaret Ziolkowski
Hagiography and Modern Russian Literature. (hb) £10.00
Modern fiction & other interpretations
John Leale
The Saint and the Boy, and twenty other stories for children; illustrated by Sillince. (hb) £6.00
Jane Oliver
Isle of Glory. (hb) £6.00
Angela Verne
Fugitive Saint. (hb) £6.00
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