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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) £10.00

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

Butler’s Lives

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) £5.00

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) £5.00

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) £6.00

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) £8.00

E. Catherine Dunn
The Gallican Saint’s Life and the Late Roman Dramatic Tradition. (hb) £6.00

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) £6.00

Lottie Hoare; illustrations by Stephen Pepler, Aged 6.
Stephen’s History of Saints. (pb) £4.50

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) £4.50

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) £6.00

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) £5.00

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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