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Reference Sources
Attwater, Donald. A Dictionary of Saints; Based on Alban Butler's 'Lives of the saints’. New York: P. J. Kenedy & Sons, 1958.
Carrier Library - Stacks - BX4654 .B8 1958 Index
The Book of Saints: A Comprehensive Biographical Dictionary. Ed. Dom Basil Watkins. 7th ed. New York: Continuum, 2002.
Carrier Library - Reference - BX4655.3 .B66 2002
Butler, Alban. Butler’s Lives of the Saints. Ed. David Hugh Farmer. Collegeville: Liturgical P, 1995.
Carrier Library - Stacks - BX4654 .B8 1995
The Cambridge Companion to the Gospels. Ed. Stephen C. Barton. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2006.
Carrier Library - Stacks - BS2555.52 .C36 2006
Cowie, Leonard W., and John Selwyn Gummer. The Christian Calendar: A Complete Guide to the Seasons of the Christian Year Telling the Story of Christ and the Saints, from Advent to Penticost. Springfield, MA: Merriam, 1974.
Carrier Library - Reference - BV30.C7
Dictionary of the Middle Ages. Ed. Joseph R. Strayer. 13 vols. New York: Scribner, 1982.
Carrier Library - Reference - D114 .D5 1982
Encyclopedia of Early Christianity. Ed. Everett Ferguson. 2 vols. New York: Garland, 1997.
Carrier Library - Reference - BR162.2 .E53 1997
Farmer, David Hugh. The Oxford Dictionary of Saints. 5th ed. Oxford; New York: Oxford UP, 2003.
Carrier Library - Reference - BR1710 .F34 2003 or Online
Grant, Michael. Civilization of the Ancient Mediterranean: Greece and Rome. 3 vols. New York: Scribner's, 1988.
Carrier Library - Reference - DE59 .C55 1988
Graves, Robert. The Greek Myths. 2 vols. Baltimore, MD: Penguin, 1955.
Carrier Library - Stacks - BL781 .G65 1955a
Guiley, Rosemary Ellen. The Encyclopedia of Saints. New York: Facts on File, 2001.
Carrier Library - Reference - BX4655.8 G85 2001
A Guide to the Study of Medieval History. Ed. Louis John Paetow. New York: Kraus,1959, 1931.
Carrier Library - Reference - D113 .P19 1959
Jobes, Gertrude. Dictionary of Mythology, Folklore, and Symbols. 2 vols. New York: Scarecrow P, 1961.
Carrier Library - Reference - GR35.J6
Larousse Encyclopedia of Mythology. Trans. Richard Aldington and Delano Ames. New York, Prometheus P, 195.
Carrier Library - Stacks - BL310 .G853
New Catholic Encyclopedia. 15 vols. 2nd ed. Farmington Hills, MI: Thomson/Gale; Washington, DC: Catholic U of America, 2003.
Carrier Library - Reference - BX841 .N44 2003 and Online
Sandoval, Annette. The Directory of Saints: A Concise Guide to Patron Saints. New York: Dutton, 1996.
Carrier Library - Reference - BX4656.5 .S26 1996
Smith, William, ed. Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. 3 vols. London: J. Murray, 1876.
Carrier Library - Stacks - DE5 .S75 1876
Bibliographies
MLA International Bibliography. Farmington Hills, MI: Gale, 1926-.
[Search Tip: Search using the following terms: title of life, saint’s name, hagiography, saint, sanctity, medieval theology, medieval religious narrative, miracle, sacred biography, exempla/exemplum, etc.]
Carrier Library - Research Databases & Resources - Literature - MLA International Bibliography
Greenfield, Stanley B. and Fred C. Robinson. A Bibliography of Publications on Old English Literature to the End of 1972. Toronto: U of Toronto P, 1980.
Carrier Library - Reference - PR173 .G83 1980
The Oxford Guide to Classical Mythology in the Arts, 1300-1990s. 2 vols. Ed. Jane Davidson Reid. Oxford; New York: Oxford UP, 1993.
Carrier Library - Reference - NX650.M9 R45 1993
Irvine, Martin, and Deborah Everhart. Labyrinth: Resources for Medieval Study. Georgetown University. 2007.<http://www.georgetown.edu/labyrinth/labyrinth-home.html>
An excellent website of medieval resources. includes primary texts, secondary texts, and bibliographies.
Schiller, Gertrud. Iconography of Christian Art. 2 vols. Trans. Janet Seligman. Greenwich, CT: New York Graphic Society, 1971-.
Carrier Library - Stacks - N7830 .S35132
Wilson, Stephen, ed. Saints and their Cults: Studies in Religious Sociology, Folklore, and History. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge UP, 1987.
Carrier Library - Stacks - BX4655.2.S23 1987 and Online
Critical Studies and Editions
Aelfric, Abbot of Eynsham. Lives of Saints. English, Latin & English (Old English). Selections. Ælfric's Lives of the Virgin Spouses: with Modern English Parallel-text Translations: Julian and Basilissa, Cecilia and Valerian and Chrysanthus and Daria. Ed. Robert K. Upchurch. Exeter: U of Exeter P, 2007.
Carrier Library - Stacks - PR1527 .A18 2007
Blumenfeld-Kosinski, Renate, and Timea Szell, eds. Images of Sainthood in Medieval Europe. Ithaca, NY: Cornell UP, 1991.
Carrier Library - Stacks - BX4662.I52 1991
Brown, Peter. The Cult of Saints: Its Rise and Function in Latin Christianity. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1981.
Carrier Library - Stacks - BX2333 .B74 and Online
Bynum, Carolyn Walker. Fragmentation and Redemption: Essays on Gender and the Human Body in Medieval Religion. New York: Zone Books; Cambridge, MA: MIT P, 1991.
Carrier Library - Stacks - BT741.2 .B95 1991
Coon, Lynda L., et al., eds. That Gentle Strength: Historical Perspectives on Women in Christianity. Charlottesville: UP of Virginia, 1990.
Carrier Library - Stacks - BV639.W7 T42 1990
Elliott, Alison Goddard. Roads to Paradise: Reading the Lives of the Early Saints Hanover, CT: UP of New England, 1987.
On order for Carrier Library Stacks. Request through Interlibrary Loan
Elliott, Dyan. Spiritual Marriage: Sexual Abstinence in Medieval Wedlock. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1993.
Carrier Library - Stacks - BV835.E424 1993
Fulk, R. D. A History of Old English Literature. Ed. R.D. Fulk and Christopher M. Cain [with a chapter on Saints' Legends by Rachel S. Anderson]. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2003.
Carrier Library - Stacks - PR173 .F85 2003
Goodich, Michael. Violence and Miracle in the Fourteenth Century: Private Grief and Public Salvation. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1995.
Carrier Library - Stacks - BX4662 .G65 1995
Hahn, Cynthia J. Portrayed on the Heart: The Narrative Effect in Pictorial Lives of Saints from the Tenth through the Thirteenth Century Berkeley: U of California P, 2001.
Carrier Library - Stacks - BX4662.H34 2001
Hall, Thomas N., Thomas D. Hill, and Charles D. Wright, eds. Via Crucis: Essays on Early Medieval Sources and Ideas in Memory of J. E. Cross. Medieval European Studies I. West Virginia UP, 2002. 138-57. [see article on Agnes: "Reconciling Family and Faith: Ælfric's Lives of Saints and Domestic Dramas of Conversion," pp. 138-57.]
Carrier Library - Stacks - PR176 .V53 2002
Heffernan, Thomas J. Sacred Biography: Saints and Their Biographers in the Middle Ages. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1988.
Carrier Library - Stacks - PR275.R4 H44 1988 or Online
Horner, Shari, The Discourse of Enclosure: Representing Women in Old English Literature. Albany: State U of New York P, 2001.
Carrier Library - Stacks - PR179.W65 H67 2001
Jones, Charles W. Saints’ Lives and Chronicles in Early England. Ithaca, NY: Cornell UP, 1947. [St. Guthlac]
Request through Interlibrary Loan
Kelly, Kathleen Coyne. Performing Virginity and Testing Chastity in the Middle Ages. London; New York: Routledge, 2000.
JMU Libraries - Online
Medieval Women [videorecording]. Extended Degree Program, University of Wisconsin. Chicago, IL: International Film Bureau, 1987. VHS format.
Carrier Library - Media Resources - Videotape no.3302.
Mooney, Catherine M., ed. Gendered Voices: Medieval Saints and their Interpreters. Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P, 1999.
Carrier Library - Stacks - BX4662.G46 1999
Noble, Thomas F.X., and Thomas Head. Soldiers of Christ: Saints and Saints’ Lives from Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State UP, 1995.
Carrier Library - Stacks - BX4659.E85 S65 1995
Rollason, David. Saints and Relics in Anglo-Saxon England. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1989.
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Salih, Sarah, ed. A Companion to Middle English Hagiography. Woodbridge, UK; Rochester, NY: D.S. Brewer, 2006.
Carrier Library - Stacks - BX4662 .C66 2006
Sanok, Catherine. Her Life Historical: Exemplarity and Female Saints' Lives in Late Medieval England. Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P, 2007.
Carrier Library - Stacks - BX4656 .S33 2007
Szarmach, Paul E., ed. Holy Men and Holy Women: Old English Prose Saints’ Lives and Their Contexts. Albany: SUNY P, 1996.
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Weinstein, Donald, and Rudolph M. Bell. Saints and Society: The Two Worlds of Western Christendom, 1000-1700. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1981.
Carrier Library - Stacks - BX4659.E.85 W44 1981
Wilcox, Jonathan, ed. Humour in Anglo-Saxon Literature. Rochester, NY: D.S. Brewer, 2000.
Carrier Library - Stacks - PR933 .H86 2000
Winstead, Karen A. Virgin Martyrs: Legends of Sainthood in Late Medieval England. Ithaca, NY: Cornell UP, 1997.
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Bibliography created by Dabney Bankert. Maintained by Melissa S. Van Vuuren.
