Yet it is not easy to assemble hagiographical samples
that pertain to particular problems.
Existing references still focus on individual saints' lives
and cults, and do not isolate texts by date of composition,
geography, etc. The
result is that broad studies tend either to proceed with inadequate
data or to get overwhelmed in Quellenkritik.
There is a solution.
Scholars have already delineated many comprehensive samples
of hagiographical texts, identifying those with particular
geographical, chronological, or genre characteristics. These samples
can serve as bases for investigations of additional problems.
Such an approach is particularly helpful when
a research problem is broad but search time is
limited.
The
following preliminary bibliography attempts to facilitate access to comprehensive hagiographical samples.
It has been limited arbitrarily to
lives (vitae) of the saints, a single hagiographical genre, because of my
own research interests and the relative abundance of material.
Studies that concern the dossiers of single saints have generally
been omitted--these are easy to locate through existing guides. Studies that concern the hagiographical production of a single
author or institution (such as a monastery or church) are also
relatively easy to locate using existing indices and are included
here only if they have broader regional or topical dimensions. Lists
of evidence for cults have not been included unless these
specifically include inventories of vitae.
Annotations offer information about the size and quality
of the samples.
A. INTERNATIONAL LISTS OF `VITAE'
Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina Antiquae et Mediae Aetatis [BHL],
ed.. Société des Bollandistes.
Subsidia Hagiographica 6.
Brussels:
Bollandistes, 1898-1901.
Updated by the BHL Novum
Supplementum, ed.
Henri Fros. Subsidia
Hagiographica 70. Ibid.,
1986. To the 9031 Latin
hagiographical texts indexed in the original
BHL, the Supplementum
adds
1000s more, including unedited texts known through published
manuscript catalogues.
It adds an index of authors.
The BHL lists
saints, their feasts, texts (with incipit and explicit), and
editions. It does not
attempt to classify lives or to date them in any but the most
generic and relative fashion.
Nevertheless, as an identification tool this reference system
is of such specificity and authority that hagiographical studies
often include parenthetical
BHL numbers as a scholarly courtesy.
Guy Philippart and his students François de Vriend,
Bénédicte Legrain, and Michel Trigalet
have produced an
Index analytique
des Catalogues de manuscrits hagiographiques latins publiés par les
Bollandistes, an open-access on-line search engine
which allows searches by BHL number,
manuscript locations, and other features.
Fros, Henri.
"Inédits non rencensé dans la
BHL." Analecta
Bollandiana 102 (1984): 163-96, 355-80. Fros lists texts, usually late medieval minor variants, which
were omitted from the BHL
and its Novum Supplementum.
Hagiographies. Volumes 1-5 (1994-2012), ed. Guy
Philippart; vol. 6- (2014-), ed. Monique Goullet. Corpus Christianorum Hagiographies. Turnhout: Brepols, 1994-. Sixty+
collaborators survey hagiography by dividing it up into manageable
pieces: by chronological periods, often pre-Constantinian, 314-750, 750-950, 950-1130, 1130-1220,
1220-1350, 1350-1450, and 1450-1550; by geographical areas, usually defined nationally and linguistically;
and by language, in many cases treating Latin and vernacular
hagiographical traditions separately. The choice to publish
the individual contributions as they arrive makes each volume a
hodgepodge.
Bibliotheca Hagiographica Graeca
[BHG].
3rd ed., ed..
François Halkin. 2 vols.
Subsidia Hagiographica, no. 8a.
Brussels: Société
des Bollandistes, 1957.
Supplemented by Halkin, Novum
Auctarium BHG.
Subsidia Hagiographica 65. Ibid., 1984.
The initial volumes listed edited texts; the
Novum Auctarium also
indicates texts known in manuscript, and adds an index of authors.
Generally similar to the BHL in conception and organization.
It is the source for John W. Nesbitt, "A Geographical and
Chronological Guide to Greek Saint Lives."
Orientalia Christiana
Periodica 35(2) (1969):
444-489, which attempts to arrange some of its data into
geographical and chronological order.
Siegmund, Albert. "Hagiographische Literatur."
In Die Überlieferung
der griechischen christlichen Literatur in der lateinischen Kirche
bis zum zwölften Jahrhundert.
Abhandlungen der Bayerischen Benediktiner-Akademie 5.
Munich: Filser
Verlag, 1949. Pp.
195-277. Utilizes the
BHG and
BHL to identify works that had been translated from Greek into
Latin, which are grouped according to whether they appear to be
early (through the sixth century), middle (seventh through mid ninth
century), or late (mid ninth to the end of the eleventh).
Bibliotheca Hagiographica Orientalis
[BHO].
Ed. Paul Peeters.
Subsidia Hagiographica 10.
Brussels: Société
des bollandistes, 1910.
Bollandist Web Page.
This includes a list of
"Essential Tools" published by the
Bollandists which lists some refrences to hymns and texts.
[Blatt, Franz].
Index Scriptorum Mediae
Latinitatis ab Anno DCCC usque ad Annum MCC Qui Afferuntur in Novo
Glossario ab Academiis Consociatis Iuris Publici Facto.
Second edition.
Copenhagen: Ejnar
Munksgard, 1973. This
dictionary source list for Latin authors from 800-1200 is difficult to use for hagiographical
projects because it is in alphabetical order by author, with only the
anonymous texts listed under vita.
Nevertheless, its spreadsheet format makes it possible to
skim through and create a list of major dated hagiographical works.
Some errors and duplications.
Niermeyer, J. F., and C. Van de Kieft.
Mediae Latinitatis
Lexikon Minus: Abbreviationes et Index Fontium. Leiden:
E. J. Brill, 1976.
This dictionary source list contains a section on "Opera
Hagiographica" (pp. 42-58), which includes not only anonymous works
but also references to the known authors listed in an earlier index.
Vernet, Felix.
"Biographies spirituelles."
Dictionnaire de
Spiritualité 1 (1937), cols. 1624-1719.
Lists major lives of saints, arranged by
century
In the Later Middle Ages, as material becomes more abundant,
subsections are devoted to saints of major religious orders.
Useful for gross analyses of hagiographical trends, although
many of these important texts have subsequently received new
editions.
Mathisen, Ralph W.
"A Biographical Database of Individuals from the
BHL."
A project begun in 1974, in its current phase from 1982 on,
which lists
1292 saints' lives from Late Antiquity which appear in the
BHL, organized under the
saints themselves. The
names were entered in 1987 and do not include data from the
Novum Supplementum. This is one part of the "Biographical Database for Late
Antiquity," a project directed by Mathisen (Dept. of History,
University of Illinois).
Wood, Ian.
"Missionary Hagiography in the Eighth and Ninth Centuries."
Ethnogenese und Überlieferung:
Angewandte Methoden der Frühmittelalterforschung, ed. Karl Brunner and Brigitte Merta.
Verðffentlichungen des Instituts für Österreichische
Geschichtsforschung 31.
Vienna: R. Oldenburg, 1994. Pp.
189-99.
Heene, Katrien.
"Female Saints and Their Lives:
The Geographical Distribution
of the Carolingian Vitae Feminarum."
In Aevum inter
Utrumque:
Mélanges offerts à Gabriel
Sanders, professeur émérite à l'Université de Gand.
Instrumenta Patristica 23.
The Hague:
Nijhoff International, 1991.
Pp. 205-26. From
dissertation research, she
lists 31 Carolingian
lives of female saints, located from "the
Bibliotheca Sanctorum and some more recent studies" (p. 222).
Zoepf, Ludwig.
Das Heiligen-Leben im 10. Jahrhundert.
Beiträge zur Kulturgeschichte des Mittelalters und der
Renaissance 1. Leipzig:
B. G. Teubner, 1908. Pp.
240-45. Lists 106 early
medieval saints whose lives were written in the tenth century, and
indicates the editions (assumes a distinction between hagiography
and biography that may not be sustainable).
Brakel, Cyriakus Heinrich. "Die vom Reformpapsttum
geförderten Heiligenkulte."
Studi gregoriani 9
(1972), 241-311.
Brilliant beginning, which remains unfinished beyond the reign of
Urban II because Brakel died in a traffic accident.
Although he was more interested in cults than in literary
texts, his notes permit the identification of associated
miracula,
translationes, and
vitae.
Kirsch, Wolfgang. Laudes
Sanctorum: Geschichte der
hagiographischen Versepik vom IV. bis X. Jahrhundert. 2 vols.
Quellen und Untersuchungen zur lateinischen Philologie des
Mittelalters 14. Stuttgart : Hiersemann, 2004 and 2011.
Tilliette, Jean-Yves. "Les modèles de sainteté du
IXe au XIe siècle, d'après le témoignage des récits hagiographiques en
vers métriques." In
Santi e demoni nell'alto medioevo occidentale (secoli V-XI), 7-13 aprile
1988. 2 vols.
Settimane di Studio del Centro Italiano di Studi sull'Alto
Medioevo 36. Spoleto:
CISAM, 1989.
In 1:381-409, esp. 387, he claims to have located more than
70 versified lives written between 800 and 1100, a list assembled
from the BHL and various source collections and reviews, but he does
not publish his list.
Golinelli, Paolo. "Negotiosus
in Causa Ecclesiae:
Santi e santità nello scontro tra impero e papato da Gregorio VII ad
Urbano II," In Les fonctions
des saints dans le monde occidental (IIIe-XIIIe siècle):
Actes du Colloque organisé par l'École française de Rome avec
le concours de l'Universit‚ de Rome "La Sapienza," Rome, 27-29
octobre 1988, Collection de l'École française de Rome 149 (Rome:
l'ÉFR, 1991), pp. 259-84.
Considers 37 saints who died between 1073 and 1099, a list
drawn from the chronological indices of the Acta Sanctorum and from
the "sixth Benedictine century" materials collected in the
Acta Sanctorum Ordinis Sancti
Benedicti (references
described below).
Ghellinck, Joseph de.
L'Essor de la littérature latine au XIIe
siècle. 2nd ed.
Museum Lessianum--Section historique, nos. 4-5.
Brussels: Desclée
de Brouwer, 1955. A
section on "Hagiographie" (pp. 388-422) lists the most literarily
memorable Latin lives of the twelfth century.
Ross, Leslie.
Text, Image, Message:
Saints in Medieval Manuscript Illustrations.
Contributions to the Study of Art and Architecture 3.
Westport, CT:
Greenwood Press, 1994.
Pp. 39-63, devoted to "Illustrated Biography:
Libelli Manuscripts," list
the "most significant" illustrated manuscripts primarily devoted to
single saints.
Abou-El-Haj, Barbara.
The Medieval Cult of
Saints: Formations and Transformations.
Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 1994.
Pp. 148-55, "Appendix 3:
Chronology and Synopses of Pictorial Hagiographies," list
about thirty surviving series of hagiographical scenes, generally
six or more images, which are associated with or related to vitae.
B.
LISTS OF SAINTS OFFERING INFORMATION ON
HAGIOGRAPHICAL TEXTUAL TRADITIONS
General:
Bibliotheca Sanctorum.
Rome: Istituto Giovanni XXIII della Pontificia Università
Lateranense, 1960-1970. 12 vols. plus an index volume.
Contains more than 20,000 articles in Italian on saints and
other celebrated holy persons, listed alphabetically with BHL refs,
editions, and bibliography. The articles vary wildly in quality and
sophistication. Readers
unfamiliar with Italian names should use the index, which
cross-references the name forms used in other major Western
languages.
Vol. 14 (Rome: Città Nuova Editrice, 1987) is an appendix which remedies some omissions but which is largely devoted to current canonization processes.
Holweck, Frederick George.
A Biographical Dictionary of the Saints:
With a General Introduction on Hagiology.
London: B. Herder
Book Co., 1924.
Alphabetically arranged short biographical listing of ca. 7000
saints, with abbreviated indications of the calendars, dictionaries,
etc. used, from which the narrative sources can sometimes be
located.
Butler, Alban (1710-73).
Lives of the Saints, ed. Herbert Thurston and Donald Attwater. 12 vols. New York:
P. J. Kennedy & Sons, 1926-38.
Supplementary volume issued by Attwater in 1949.
A four-volume version produced by Attwater in 1956 is further
corrected, but even more abbreviated.
Butler's original descriptions of more than 1600 saints,
published 1756-59, were drastically revised by Thurston and
Attwater, who chopped out much devotional prose and
added modern scholarly references.
The editing slanted the work toward Thurston's interests,
particularly mysticism.
Zimmermann, Alfons. Kalendarium Benedictinum: Die Heiligen und Seligen des Benediktinerordens und seine Zweige. 4 vols. Vienna: Herder, 1933-38. Saints arranged in calendrical order, with some bibliography. Includes, among other things, lists of dictionaries of individual religious congregations (1v-xxiii).
[Benedictines of
Paris, directed by Jules Baudot, Yves Chaussin, Paul Antin, and
Jacques Dubois].
Vies des saints et des
bienheureux, selon l'order du calendier, avec l'historique des fêtes.
13 vols. Paris:
Librairie Letouzey et An‚, 1935-59.
Treats the saints according to the calendrical order of their
feasts, with one volume for each month and an index volume.
Bibliographies follow each article, but for the final months, after a change of
editors, these became fuller.
Il grande libro dei santi: Dizionario enciclopedico. Edited by Claudio Leonardi, Andrea Riccardi, and
Gabreilla Zarri. 3 vols. Turin: Edizioni San Paolo, 1998. Second
edition of 2002 not
seen. Contains about 1000 biographies written by scholarly
contributors, arranged in chronologically ordered volumes, with the years
200-1300,ed. Leonardi, 1300-1800 ed. Riccardi, 1800 to the present
ed. Zarri.
Bunson, Matthew, Margaret Bunson, and Stephen Bunson.
Our Sunday Visitor's
Encyclopedia of Saints, rev. Huntington IN: Our Sunday Visitor
Publishing Division, 2003.
A huge one-volume encyclopedia of saints written for the
general public rather than a scholarly audience.
Delooz, Pierre.
Sociologie et
Canonisations.
Collection scientifique de la Faculté de droit de l'Université de
Liège 30. Liège:
Facultè de Droit, 1969.
Includes a list of 128 early papal canonizations, and the
bibliographical sources behind it (pp. 129-31, 440-46).
Also several other lists, based on a variety of sources.
The texts underlying these names can only be retrieved by
searching through the general sources.
Farmer, David Hugh. The Oxford Dictionary of Saints. 5th ed. rev. Oxford: Clarendon, 2011. Articles on all English saints, on the "most important and representative saints" of the Celtic U.K., on "all saints of whom there is or was a notable cult in England," and on miscellaneous others too important to omit. Bibliographies include editions of lives. Farmer's first version treated 435 saints; the fifth includes more than 1400. "There is nothing better as a first instrument of reference in a manageable volume."—Robert Godding, Analecta. Bollandiana 121 (2003): 442.
Ó Riain, Pádaig.
A Dictionary of Irish Saints.
Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2011.
Riché, Pierre. "Les carolingiens en quête de sainteté." In Les fonctions des saints dans le monde occidental (IIIe-XIIIe siècle): Actes du Colloque organisé par l'École française de Rome avec le concours de l'Université de Rome "La Sapienza," Rome, 27-29 octobre 1988, Collection de l'École française de Rome, 149 (Rome: ÉFR, 1991), pp. 217-24. A list of Carolingian saints, most distinguished for the lacunae it reveals, in that, except for several late cults, there are only a few missionary saints, no sainted kings, queens, great bishops, or abbots.
Goodich, Michael.
Vita Perfecta:
The Ideal of Sainthood in the Thirteenth Century.
Monographien zur Geschichte des Mittelalters 25.
Stuttgart: Anton Hiersemann, 1982.
Lists 518 saints who lived between 1215 and 1296, for whom
cults had developed within 50 years of their deaths.
Includes information on gender, age, religious order, type of
sanctity, source of information, etc.
Be careful to note how the categories are defined. Some
inaccuracies.
Graus, František, André Vauchez, et al.
Histoire des saints et
de la sainteté chrétienne.
11 vols. Paris:
Hachette, 1986-88. About
400 separate articles presented in topical groups in chronological
order. Bibliographies at the end of each volume.
Weinstein, Donald and
Rudolph M. Bell. Saints and
Society: The Two Worlds of Western Christendom, 1000-1700.
Chicago:
University of Chicago Press, 1982. Uses
a sample of 864 saints, largely derived from Delooz,
Sociologie et canonisations.
Its own "Appendix on Sources" is too sketchy to use.
Contains 18 statistical tables, constructed with more
sophistication than is usual in medieval studies.
Note the caveat in Howe, Catholic Historical Review 70
(1984): 77-79.
C. MAJOR UNIVERSAL LITERARY INDEXES THAT PERTAIN TO HAGIOGRAPHICAL LIVES
General:
Clavis Patrum Latinorum, ed. Eligius Dekkers. 3rd edition. Corpus Christianorum Series Latina. Turnhout: Brepols, 1995. Treats Latin patristic writing, century by century, placing hagiographic works of known authorship under their authors and grouping anonymous works by century. The 2nd ed. (1961) was cross-indexed in the BHL Novum Supplementum (pp. 905-12); the 3rd is now indexed to the BHL and the BHG in its appendices (pp. 888-93). The text numbers as updated in this 3rd edition are keys for searches in the electronic CETEDOC Library of Latin Christian texts.
Manitius, Max.
Geschichte der
lateinischen Literatur des Mittelalters.
3 vols. Handbuch
der klassischen Altertumswissenschaft 9(2).
Munich: G. H. Beck, 1911-31.
Not yet superseded, despite many deficiencies.
Extensive bibliography.
Berschin, Walter.
Biographie und
Epochenstil im lateinischen Mittelalter.
5- vols. Quellen
und Untersuchungen zur lateinischen Philologie des Mittelalters. 8-10,
12, 15.
Stuttgart: Anton
Hiersemann Verlag, 1986-.
Appendices for each volume list "Biographien in Gruppen,"
offering chronologically ordered groups of types of texts and
listing the editions used.
The detail and care prompted a Bollandist to observe that "il
pourrait rangé
à coté de nos
Subsidia
Hagiographica" (Anal. Boll. 107 [1989], 443).
Brunhölzl, Franz.
Geschichte
der
lateinischen Literatur des Mittelalters.
2- vols. Munich:
Wilhelm Fink
Verlag, 1975-. Transl.
as Histoire de la littérature
latine du moyen âge, by Henri Rochais; with bibliographic additions by
Jean-Paul Bouhot (Louvain:
Brepols, 1990-).
Bak, János M., and Ivan Jurković, eds.
Chronicon: Medieval Narrative Sources: A Chronological Guide with
Introductory Essays. Turnhout: Brepols, 2013. Contains "only a selection from the vast treasury of
hagiography" (p. 142), texts presumably chosen because of their
significant narrative content.
BISLAM. Bibliotheca Scriptorum Latinorum Medii Recentiorisque Aevi.
Repertory of Medieval and Renaissance Latin authors…Onomastic and
Literary Census of Latin Authors. Identification, Classification by
Literary Genre, and General Bibliography, ed Roberto Gamberini.
2 vols. Florence: SISMEL—Edizioni del Galuzzo, 2010.
CALMA:
Compendium Auctorum Latinorum Medii Aevi (500-1500),
founded by
Michael Lapidge and Claudio Leonardi, now edited by Lapidge and
Francesco Santi. 5-
vols. Florence: SISMEL- Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2002-. Attempts to
provide a comprehensive bibliography of medieval and Renaissance
authors whose works fall between 500 and 1500.
Repertorium Fontium Historiae Medii Aevi Primum ab Augusto Potthast
Digestum, Nunc Cura Collegii Historicorum e Pluribus Nationibus
Emendatum at Auctum [the "new Potthast"]. 11 vols. Rome:
Istituto storico italiano per il medio evo, 1962-2006. The first
volume lists source collections; subsequent volumes are
alphabetically arranged treatments of medieval authors and sources.
Regional:
Clavis Scriptorum Latinorum Medii Aevi: Auctores Italiae, 700-1000. Edited by Benedetta Valtorta. Florence: SISMEL, Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2006.
Baxter, James Houston, Charles
Johnson, and James F. Willard.
"An Index of British and Irish Latin Writers, 400-1520."
Archivum Latinitatis Medii Aevi [Bulletin du Cange] 7 (1932):
110-219. Rpt. as
An Index of British and
Irish Latin Writers, 400-1520, in Burt Franklin Bibliography and
Reference Series 443, Essays on Literature and Criticism 174.
New York: Burt
Franklin, 1971.
Bolton, Whitney French. A History of Anglo-Latin Literature, 597-1066. 1- vols. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1967. Only vol. 1, which reaches to 740. seems to have actually appeared. Bolton intended to provide students of Old English with "a guide to the Latin literature which existed alongside the vernacular" and sought to describe "the primary materials," hoping "to have included them all" (p. v). Unfortunately he did not get much further than the age of Bede.
Sharpe, Richard.
A Handlist of the Latin
Writers of Great Britain and Ireland before 1540. Publications
of the Journal of Medieval Latin 1.
1997, rev. Turnhout: Brepols, 2001. A handlist of authors
and works, including manuscript information when necessary. Treats
more than 2000 writers and 5200 works. Not structured as a good
first reference for locating
vitae, but a good way to invesitigate known sources.
Clavis Patrum Graecorum, edited by Maurice Geerard. 5 vols. Turnhout: Brepols, 1974-83. Treats Greek patristic writings, century by century, placing hagiographical works of known authorship under their authors and grouping anonymous works by century. Excellent listing of editions and evaluation of authorship and authenticity. It has been cross-indexed in the BHL Novum Supplementum (pp. 913-14).
Krumbacher, Karl. Geschichte
der byzantinischen Literatur von Justinian
bis zum Ende des oströmischen Reiches (527-1453), 2nd ed.
Munich: C. H. Beck, 1897.
Rpt. as Burt Franklin Bibliography and Reference Series sect.
13; Byzantine Series 27 (New York: Burt Franklin, 1958).
Includes an overview of hagiographers and hagiographic work
(pp. 176-205).
Beck,
Hans-Georg. Kirche und theologische Literatur im byzantinischen
Reich. Handbuch der Altertumswissenschaft 12. Abteilung.
Byzantinisches Handbuch im Rahmen des Handbuchs der
Altertumswissenschaft 2(1). Munich:
C. H. Beck, 1959. Esp. pp. 402-13, 459-67, 506-14, 557-83.
Erhard, Albert.
Überlieferung und Bestand der hagiographischen und homiletischen Literatur der grieschischen Kirche von den
Anfängen bis zum Ende des 16. Jahrhunderts. 3 vols.
Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs Verlag, 1937-52.
This work is contextualized in Friedhelm Winkelmann,
Albert Ehrhard und die Erforschung der grieschisch-byzantinischen
Hagiographie. Texte und Untersuchungen zur Geschichte der
altchristlichen Literatur 3. Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, 1971.
II.
GEOGRAPHICALLY ORGANIZED LISTS
(USING
MODERN NATIONAL BOUNDARIES)
Stanier, A.
"Oeuvres hagiographiques, VIIe siècle,"
"Oeuvres hagiographiques, VIIe - VIIIe siècle," "Oeuvres
hagiographiques, VIIIe siècle," "Oeuvres hagiographiques, VIIIe -
IXe siècle," "Oeuvres hagiographiques, IXe siècle," "Oeuvres
hagiographiques, IXe-Xe siècle," "Oeuvres hagiographiques, Xe
siècle." Index
Scriptorum Operumque Latino-Belgicorum Medii Aevi.
Premiere partie:
VIIe-Xe siècles, ed.
Paul Tombeur and Léopold Genicot.
Brussels:
Académie Royale de Belgique Comité national du Dictionnaire du latin
médiéval, 1973. Full
references with text information,
BHL no., word count,
editions, and dating. The vocabulary of all the material listed here
is tabulated in Thesaurus
Linguae Scriptorum
Operumque Latino-Belgicorum Medii Aevi.
Première partie:
Le vocabulaire des origines à l'an mil,
ed. by Tombeur. 5
vols. Brussels: Ibid. 1986.
Fransen, Paul-Irénée, and H. Maraite. "Oeuvres hagiographiques, Xe - XIe siècle," "Oeuvres hagiographiques, XIe siècle." Index Scriptorum Operumque Latino-Belgicorum Medii Aevi. Deuxième partie: XIe siècle, ed. Paul Tombeur and Léopold Genicot. Brussels: Académie Royale de Belgique Comité national du Dictionnaire du latin médiéval, 1976. On content see Stanier above. Rather surprisingly, almost no texts of this large hagiographical sample refer to contemporary saints.
McCormick, Michael, with Fransen.
"Oeuvres hagiographiques, XIIe siècle?"
"Oeuvres hagiographiques, XIIe siècle,"
Index Scriptorum Operumque Latino-Belgicorum Medii Aevi.
Troisième partie:
XIIe siècle. Ed. Paul
Tombeur and Léopold Genicot.
Brussels:
Académie Royale de Belgique Comité national du Dictionnaire du latin
mdieval, 1977. On
content see Stanier above.
Van Der Essen, Léon.
Étude critique et littéraire sur les vitae des saints
mérovingiens de l'ancienne Belgique.
Université de Louvain Recueil de travaux publiés par les
membres des Conférences d'histoire et de philologie 17.
Louvain: Université de Louvain, 1907.
Lists saints of Belgium by diocese for the sixth, seventh,
and eighth centuries, and analyzes their complicated, interrelated
hagiographical sources. A table on pp.
xiii-xv lists saints by century.
The concluding "Table alphabétique des saints" is imperfect
(it omits at least
Bertuinus and Landelinus).
de Gaiffier, Baudouin.
"L'hagiographie dans le Marquisat de Flandre et le Duché de
Basse Lotharingie au XIe siècle."
Thèse, École des Chartes, 1925.
Bits and pieces of this dissertation have been published, as
indicated in de Gaiffier's
Études critiques
d'hagiographie et d'iconologie, Subsidia Hagiographica 43
(Brussells: Société des
Bollandistes, 1967), pp. 5-6, which also contains a large section of
it (pp. 415-507). The
original work analyzed eleventh-century hagiographical production in
Flanders and its neighborhood, diocese by diocese.
Carasso-Kok, Marijke. "Le diocese d'Utrecht, 900-1200." In
Hagiographies 2:373-411.
Dierkens, Alain.
"La production hagiographique à Lobbes au Xe siècle."
Revue bénédictine 93 (1983): 245-59.
Baix,
F. "L'hagiographie à
Stavelot-Malmédy." Revue bénédictine 60
(1950): 120-62.
Arnold, Ellen F. Negotiating
the Landscape: Environment and Monastic Identity in the Medieval
Ardennes. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013.
Stavelot-Malmedy's local landscape, the upper valley of the Meuse,
produced a post-Viking flurry of sources, that includes 7 vitae,
2 miracula, 2 translationes, and some letters and
annals identified in a "Handlist of Sources" (pp. 223-25).
Coens, Maurice.
"Les saints particulièrement honorés à l'abbaye de Saint-Trond."
Analecta Bollandiana 72 (1954): 85-133, 397-426.
Delaissé, Éric.
“Des saints et bienheureux à Villers-en-Brabant: Une
politique de l’abbaye?” In Saints et sainteté en Roman Pays: Cultes d’hier et d’aujourd’hui, ed Morgane Belin. Wavre: Comité d’histoire religieuse du
Brabant wallon, 2012. Pp. 35-54. Finds 72 twelfth- and
thirteenth-century religious who were considered blessed by their
establishments, 8 commemorated in
vitae he identifies and
analyzes
.
Helvétius, Anne-Marie. Abbayes, évêques et laïques: Une politique du pouvoir en Hainaut au moyen âge (VIIe-XIe siècle). Brussels: Crédit communal, 1994.
Webb, J. R. "Hagiography in the
Diocese of Liège (950-1130)." In
Hagiographies 6:809-904.
Discusses nearly 100 texts.
Roisin, Simone. L'Hagiographie cistercienne dans le Diocèse de Liège au XIIIe siècle. Université de Louvain Recueil de travaux d'histoire et de philologie, 3rd ser., 27. Louvain: Bibliothèque de l'Université 1947. A dossier of twenty pieces, linked to particular monastic establishments (pp. 23-73).
Mériaux,
Charles. Gallia Irradiata. See II.C. below, under northern
France.
Klaniczay, Gábor.
Holy
Rulers and Blessed Princesses: Dynastic Cults in Medieval Central
Europe. Translated by Éva Pálmai.
Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 2002.
Belmarić, Josko, Bratislav Lučin,
Marko Trogrlić, and Josip Vrandečić, eds.
Splitska hagiografska
baština: povijest, legenda, tekst. Biblioteka Knjiga Mediterana
76. Split: Književni krug- Filozofski fakultet Sveučilšta, 2014.
Papers from a 2011 Croatian conference that
offer a
rough overview of Split hagiographical activity:
although pp. 371-80 list all Split celestial patrons
and 395-413 offer a list of martyrs through the twelfth century,
this book does
Petrović, Ivanka.
"L'hagiographie, latine et vernaculaire, de l'éspace croate, des
origines à 1350. In
Hagiographies 4: 183-73. Miscellaneous traditions in multiple
languages.
Macartney, Carlile.
The
Medieval Hungarian Historians:
A Critical and Analytical Guide.
Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 1963.
Includes hagiographical sources.
Klaniczay, Gábor, and Edit Madas, "La Hongrie." In Hagiographies 2:103-160.
Klaniczay, Gábor.
"From Sacral Kingship to Self-Representation.
Hungarian and European Royal Saints in the 11th-13th
Centuries." In
Continuity and Change:
Political Institutions and Literary Monuments in the Middle
Ages: A Symposium.
Odense: Odense
University Press, 1986.
Pp. 61-86. No systematic
text list, but concisely surveys cases and trends providing the
context for the Hungarian tradition of royal saints.
Dunin-Wasowicz, Teresa,. "Hagiographie polonaise entre XIe et XVIe siècle." In Hagiographies 3:179-202.
Gustawa, O. Romualda, ed.
Hagiografia Polska:
Slownik Bio-Bibliograficzny.
2 vols. Poznan':
Ksiegarnia s'w. Wojciecha, 1971-72.
Long articles with substantial bibliographies on 100 saints
associated with Poland.
Description in Analecta Bollandiana 93 (1975): 177-81.
Lundre, Ingunn. "Slavic Hagiography." In Ashgate Research Companion to Byzantine Hagiography, ed. Efthymiadis. 2 vols. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2011-2014. 1:369-84, primary sources listed 1:2379-82.
General:
Lot, Ferdinand, et al. "Index
Scriptorum Operumque Latino-Gallicorum Medii Aevi (500-1000)."
Archivum Latinitatis Medii
Aevi (Bulletin Du
Cange) 14 (1939): 113-230, with pp. 180-230 devoted to
hagiographical works. Supplemented by "Additions et corrections aux
Indices Scriptorum Operumque."
Ibid. 20 (1950): 5-64. The
extent of the corrections indicates the problems involved.
Lot, Ferdinand, et al. "Index
Scriptorum Operumque Latino-Gallicorum Medii Aevi Saec. XI
(1000-1108)." Archivum
Latinitatis Medii Aevi 16 (1942): 5-59.
Many of the hagiographical texts are in their own "Vitae,
Passiones,
Miracula, Translationes
Sanctorum Galliae Necnon Alia Opera Hagiographica Saec. XI in Gallia
Exarata." Archivum Latinitatis
Medii Aevi (Bulletin Du
Cange) 17 (1943): 5-37; with corrections by André Boutemy, Ibid.,
37-40. See Lot, above.
Sources hagiographiques de la Gaule (SHG). An initiative sponsored by the German Institute in Paris, still in progress, to redo Lot's early medieval hagiographical inventory in a more complete, systematic, and detailed fashion. For an initial description, see Martin Heinzelmann, Joseph-Claude Poulin, and Franois Dolbeau. "Les sources hagiographiques narratives composées en Gaule avant l'an mil (SHG). Inventaire, examen critique, datation." Francia 15(1987): 701-31. The plan is to produce regional hagiorgaphical studies of all French hagiography prior to the year 1000, publishing these first as stand-alone articles, and then, after criticism, combined into regional volumes. About a dozen SHG articles have appeared, and one book (Joseph-Claude Poulin, L'hagiographie bretonne: see Brittany below).
Bautier, Robert-Henri.
“L’historiographie en France aux Xe et XIe siècles (France du Nord
et de l’Est).” In La
storiografia altomedievale, 10-16 aprile 1969. 2 vols. Centro
italiano di studi sull'alto medievo
Settimane di studio 17. Spoleto: CISAM, 1970. 2:793-855, esp. 822-37
(“Les biographies individuelle”) and 837-47 (“La littérature
hagiographique”).
Ancient:
Duchesne, Louis. Fastes épiscopaux de l'ancienne Gaule. 3 vols. Paris: Albert Fontemoing, 1894-1915. This almost definitive study of early rosters of French bishops analyzes the hagiographical sources for those commemorated as saints.
Leclercq, Henri. "Légendes
apostoliques" / "Légendes gallicanes."
Dictionnaire
d'archéologie chrétienne et de Liturgie.
11 vols. Paris:
Letouzey et Ané, 1907-53.
7:2309-2323 and 2357-2440.
Sot, Michel “La Rome antique dans l’hagiographie épiscopale en Gaule.” In Roma antica nel Medioevo: mito, rappresentazioni, sopravvivenze nella 'Respublica Christiana' dei secoli IX-XIII, atti della quattordicesima Settimana internazionale di studio, Mendola, 24-28 agosto 1998. Milan: Vita e Pensiero, 2001. Pp. 163–68, esp. 173–86
Beaujard, Brigitte.
Le culte des saints en Gaule: Les premiers temps: D'Hilaire de Poitiers
à la fin du VIe siècle. Paris: Cerf, 2000, approaches the study
of early saints in Gaul by disregarding all saints and martyrs who
are not attested in
written evidence from prior to 600, a procedure that leaves only 2
cults prior to 397 and only about 70 overall.
Includes a "tableaux" of dates (pp. 515-30).
Merovingian:
Monumenta Germaniae Historica Scriptores Rerum Merovingicarum, ed. Bruno Krusch and Wilhelm Levison. 7 vols. in 8. Hannover: Hahn, 1885-1920. These are source editions, not lists (although vol. 7 has appended an unparalleled list of legendaries). Nevertheless, they can be used to gain an overview of more historically-oriented Merovingian hagiography. Marred by editorial cuts and omissions that resulted from a positivistic, hypercritical editorial orientation.
Heuclin, Jean.
Aux Origines monastiques de la Gaule du Nord: ermites et reclus
du Ve au XIe siècle. Lille:
Presses universitaires de Lille, 1988. The bibliography lists
sources (not always the most recent) for approximately 300 hermit
lives.
Bernoulli, C. A.
Die Heiligen der Merowinger. Tübingen: Mohr, 1900.
Heinzelmann, Martin. "L'hagiographie mérovingienne: panorama des documents potentiels." In L'Hagiographie mérovingienne à travers ses réécritures, ed. Monique Goullet, Heinzelmann, and Christiana Veyrard-Cosme. Beihefte der Francia 71. Pp. 27-82. Sigmaringen: Jan Thorbecke, 2010. Heinzelmann attempts to present a "panorama" of texts before the Carolingian age by dividing his material into various categories: first martyrs; then confessors; then bishops; then monks; then holy women. He includes a discussion of earlier lists of Merovingian lives (pp. 27-31). He claims that there is a text of some sort for 509 saints from 501-751 (p. 31).
.
Godding Robert. Prêtres en Gaule mérovingienne. Brussels: Bollandistes, 2001. Pp. xx-xxix list and annotate 96 vitae and passiones from 481-714.
Réal, Isabelle. Vies de saints, vie de famille: Représentation et système de la parenté dans le Royaume mérovingien (481-751) d'après les sources hagiographiques. Hagiologia 2. Turnhout: Brepols, 2001. Outside of Gregory of Tours, her Merovingian corpus concerns 94 saints (14 women), of whom 53% were bishops, 38% abbots (see esp. pp. 39, 46-55).
Heinzelmann, Martin. "Studia
Sanctorum:
Éducation, milieux d'instruction et valeurs éducatives dans
l'hagiographie en Gaule jusqu'à la fin de l'époque mérovingienne."
Haut moyen-age, culture, éducation et société:
Études offertes à Pierre Riché, ed. Michel Sot. La
Garenne-Colombes: Éditions Européenes Erasme, 1990. Pp. 105-38.
He works with 105
lives written from the
late fourth to the mid eighth century, 73 of which offer some hint
about a saint's education.
Brittany:
Lobineau, Guy-Alexis [d. 1727].
Les Vies des saints de Bretagne
et des personnes d'une éminente piété, ed. Abbé Tresvaux.
4 vols. Paris:
Méquignon Junior, 1836-37.
Lives of Breton saints and other pious people, arranged in
chonological order according to their death dates, prefixed by an
indication of sources.
Duine, Francois. Sources
hagiographiques de l'histoire de Bretagne.
Rennes: L.
Bahon-Bault, Éditeur, 1918.
Analyzes the sources for Breton saints from the fifth to the
tenth centuries. Note
that, despite the impression of precision Duine sometimes gives,
these materials are so tenuously dated that Lapidge and Sharpe
(cited below) abandoned any attempt at arranging them in
chronological order and simply listed them alphabetically.
Merdrignac, Bernard.
Recherches sur l'hagiographie armoricaine
du VIIeme au XVeme siècle. 2 vols.
Alet: Centre régionale archéologique, 1985-86. A survey of many aspects of Breton
hagiographical tradition, which includes a list of saints'
lives, editions, and
BHL nos. (2:3-7).
Kerlouégan, François. "Les Vies
de saints bretons les plus anciennes dans leurs rapports avec les
Iles Britanniques." In Insular
Latin Studies: Papers on Latin Texts and Manuscripts of the British
Isles: 550-1066, ed.
Michael W. Herren. Papers in Mediaeval Studies 1.
Toronto:
Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 1981. Pp. 195-213.
Based on the earliest lives written in Brittany, a sample of
fourteen texts taken from Duine.
Poulin,
Joseph-Claude. L' hagiographie
bretonne du haut Moyen Âge: Répertoire raisonné. Beihefte der
Francia 69. Ostfildern:
J. Thorbecke, 2009. 14 saints who had narrative treatments beore the
year 1000; and 34 others with
‘brief notices.” All these sainst are men; the sample
includes almost no native separate miracula.
This work subsumes a number
of meticulous
SHG studies.
Lapidge, Michael and Richard
Sharpe. A Bibliography of
Celtic-Latin Literature, 400-1200.
Dublin: Royal
Irish Academy, 1985. Pp.
223-77. Breton lives and
other texts, presented with bibliography in chronological and
topical order. On this work, see II.J. below.
Normandy:
Baedorf, Balthasar.
Untersuchungen über Heiligenleben der westlichen Normandie (der Diözesen
Avranches, Coutances, Bayeux und Séez). Bonn: Carl Georgi,
Universitäts-Buschdruckerei und Verlag, 1913.
Dissertation analyzing the traditions of two dozen western
Norman saints.
Lifshitz, Felice. The Norman Conquest of Pious Neustria: Historiographic Discourse and Saintly Relics, 684-1090. Studies and Texts 122. Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 1995. Creative and opinionated treatments of the hagiographic evidence.
Howe, John. "The Hagiography of
Jumièges (Province of Haute-Normandie) (SHG VII)." In L'hagiographie du haut moyen âge en Gaule du
Nord: manuscrits, textes et centres de production, ed.
Martin Heinzelmann. Beihefte der Francia 52. Sigmaringen: Jan
Thorbecke Verlag, 2001. Pp. 91-125.
Howe, John.
"The Hagiography of Saint-Wandrille (Province of
Haute-Normandie) (SHG VIII)." In L'hagiographie du
haut moyen âge en Gaule du Nord: manuscrits, textes et centres de
production, ed Martin Heinzelmann. Beihefte der Francia
52. Sigmaringen: Jan Thorbecke Verlag, 2001. Pp. 127-92
Vaughn, Sally.
The Abbey of Bec and the
Anglo-Norman State. Woodbridge, Suffolk: The Boydell Press,
1981. Translates a half dozen short biographies and tracts produced
at Bec ca. 1136-50, texts that fall somewhere between
vitae and gesta.
Pigeon, Michel. "Les Femmes dans
les vitae des saints de
Savigny." Cîteaux
35 (1984): 73-83. Lists
eight saints associated with the monastery of Savigny (Normandy),
four of whom have vitae (p. 73).
Northern France:
Heuclin, Jean. Aux Origines monastiques de la Gaule du Nord: Ermites et reclus du Ve au XIe siècle. Lille: Presses universitaires de Lille, 1988. The bibliography lists sources (not always the most recent) for approximately 300 hermit lives.
Van't Spijker, Ienje. Als door een speciaal stempel: Traditie en vernieuwing in heiligenslevens uit Noordwest-Frankrijk (1050-1150. Middeleeuwse studies en bronnen 23. Hilversum: Verloren, 1990. Lists and describes thirty-one lives (of twenty-one saints) written north of the Loire--especially from the regions of Picardy, Anjou, and Paris--between 1050 and 1150 (esp. pp. 8-9, 172-76). Includes information on earlier versions of these texts. Somewhat arbitrary selections of texts and parameters.
Van't Spijker, Ineke. "Gallia du Nord et de l'Ouest: Les provinces ecclésiastiques de Tours, Rouen, Reims (950-1130)." In Hagiographies 2:239-90.
Mériaux, Charles. Gallia Irradiata: Saints et sanctuaires dans le nord de la Gaule du haut Moyen Âge. Beiträge zur Hagiographie 4. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2006. Examines the process of Christianization in the medieval dioceses of Thérouanne, Tournai, and Cambrai/Arras. Examines major hagiographical dossiers in an appendix, pp. 345-372; lists other relevant pieces in the bibliography, pp. 375-76.
Galliard, Michèle. "De l'Eigenkloster au monastère royal: L'Abbaye Saint-Jean de Laon, du milieiu du VIIe siècle au milieu du VIIIe siècle à travers les sources hagiographiques." In L'hagiographie du haut moyen âge en Gaule du Nord: Manuscrits, textes et centres de production, ed. Martin Heinzelmann. Beihefte der Francia 52. Sigmaringen: Jan Thorbecke Verlag, 2001. Pp.249-62.
Central France:
Poncelet, Albert. "Les saints de Micy."
Analecta Bollandiana 24
(1905): 5-104. Amended
slightly in Walter Goffart,
The Le Mans Forgeries: A
Chapter from the History of Church Property in the Ninth Century.
Harvard Historical Studies 76.
Cambridge:
Harvard University Press, 1966. Pp. 327-50.
Head, Thomas. Hagiography and the Cult of Saints: The Diocese of Orléans, 800-1200. Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought, 4th ser., 14. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990.
Eastern France:
Iogna-Prat, Dominique. "Panorama de l'hagiographie abbatiale
clunisienne (v. 940- v. 1140)."
In Manuscrits
hagiographiques et travail des hagiographes, ed. Martin
Heinzelmann.
Sigmaringen: Jan Thorbecke Verlag, 1992. Pp. 77-118.
Presents the dossiers of Cluniac abbots Odo, Maiolus, Odilo,
and Hugh.
Philippart, Guy. "Le saint comme parure de Dieu, héros séducteur et patron terrestre d'après les hagiographes lotharingiens du Xe siècle," In Les fonctions des saints dans le monde occidental (IIIe-XIIIe siècle): Actes du Colloque organisé par l'École française de Rome avec le concours de l'Université de Rome "La Sapienza," Rome, 27-29 octobre 1988. Collection de l'ÉFR 149 (Rome: ÉFR, 1991), pp. 123-42. Based upon a sample of 35 tenth-century prose hagiographic texts from the Lorraine, drawn ultimately from the Thesaurus Linguae Scriptorum Operumque Latino-Belgicorum Medii Aevi (see above).
Clauss, Joseph M. B.
Die Heiligen des Elsass in ihrem Leben, ihrer Verehrung und ihrer
Darstellung in der Kunst.
Forschungen zur Volkskunde 18-19.
Düsseldorf: Drück und Verlag von L. Schwann, 1935.
69 Alsatian saints; 14 others associated with the region; and
11 Roman martyrs whose relics are honored there.
Source discussions appended, pp. 183-249.
Philippart, Guy, and Anne
Wagner. "Hagiographie Lorraine (950-1130): Les dioceses de Metz,
Toul et Verdun." In
Hagiographies 4: 585-744. Discusses nearly 100 texts, including
45 vitae.
Southern France:
Poulin, Joseph-Claude. L'Idéal de sainteté dans l'Aquitaine Carolingienne d'après les sources hagiographiques (750-950).
Travaux du Laboratoire d'histoire religieuse de l'Université
Laval 1. Quebec: Les Presses de l'Université Laval, 1975.
Gives sources for and analyses of thirty-nine
vitae,
translationes, and
miracula written in
Aquitaine about Aquitainian saints between 750 and 950 (esp. pp. 16-17 and 167-176).
Minor supplements in Martin Heinzelmann, "Sanctitas und `Tugendadel': Zu Konzeptionen von `Heiligkeit' im 5.
und 10. Jahrhundert," Francia
5 (1977): 742.
Bultot-Verleysen, Anne-Marie.
"Hagiographie d'Aquitaine (750-1130)." In
Hagiographies 6:521-704. Discusses 49 dossiers of bishops and monks.
Bonassie, Pierre, Pierre-André
Sigal, and Dominique Iogna Prat. "La Gallia du Sud, 930-1130." In
Hagiographies 1:289-344.
Anne-Marie Bultot-Verleysen revisited this
article
twenty years later, in Hagiographies 6: 637-87 (see above).
Baillet, Christoph, and Patrick
Henriet. "Gallia, 1130-fin XIIIe siècle: Provences de
Bordeaux, Auch et Narbonne." In
Hagiographies 6:705-807.
Discusses 31 saints, 68 literary works.
Romance Hagiography:
Brunel-Lobrichon, Geneviève, Anne-Françoise Leurquin-Labie, and Martine Thiry-Stassin. "L'hagiographie de langue française sur le Continent IXe- XVe siècle." In Hagiographies 2:291-371.
Zaal, J. W. B.
`A lei francesca' (Sainte Foy v. 20): Étude sur les chansons de saints
gallo-romanes du XIe siècle. Leiden: Brill, 1962. Lists Latin
hagiography written in France from the late tenth through the early
twelfth century (pp. 46-54, sources 46n-47n); lists parallel
vernacular hagiography (p. 56).
Ernst, Ursula.
Studien zur altfranzösischen Verslegende (10.-13. Jahrhundert):
Die Legende im Spannungsfeld von
Chanson de geste und
Roman.
Europäische Hochschulschriften 13:
Französische Sprache und Literatur 141. Frankfurt am Main:
Peter Lang, 1987. A
Göttingen dissertation containing a list of versified French
hagiographical texts to the early thirteenth century, including
date, length, metrical form, and edition (pp. 11-20).
Thiry-Stassin, Martine,
"L'hagiographie en Anglo-Normand." In
Hagiographies 1:407-28.
Wogan-Browne, Jocelyn. "Clerc u
lai, muine u dame:
Women and Anglo-Norman Hagiography."
In Women and Literature
in Britain, 1150-1500,
ed. Carol M. Meale. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
1983. Lists
70 romance texts concerning 37 saints, "a considerable corpus …
which has tended to fall between the concerns of Middle English and
Old French scholars" ( p
Johnson, Phyllis, and Brigitte
Cazelles. Le vain siècle
guerpir: A Literary
Approach to Sainthood through Old French Hagiography of the Twelfth
Century. North
Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures 205.
Chapel Hill:
U.N.C. Dept. of Romance Languages, 1979.
Looks at French vernacular hagiography in the twelfth
century. Appends data on
the twenty-four poems discussed (pp. 197-304).
Also offers a short list of text dates (pp. 305-07), as well
as information on the debates over Anglo/Norman vs. Continental
origins (pp. 308-09).
Cazelles, Brigitte.
The Lady as a Saint: A
Collection of French Hagiographic Romances of the Thirteenth Century.
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1991.
Bibliography (pp. 320-323) gives sources for lives of
thirteen female saints celebrated in thirteenth-century French
hagiographical romance.
Wattenbach, Wilhelm, and Wilhelm Levison. Deutschlands Geschichtsquellen im Mittelalter, ed. Heinrich Löwe. 6 vols. Weimar: Böhlaus Nachfolger, 1952-90. The original version published in 1856 has been revised many times. Contains abundant bibliography on the major German narrative hagiographical sources.
Corbet, Patrick.
Les saints ottoniens: Sainteté dynastique, sainteté royale et sainteté féminine autour de l'an
mil.
Beihelfte der Francia 15. Sigmaringen: Jan Thorbecke, 1986.
Lists sources for six saints (five female) from the Ottonian royal
line. Case-by-case and typological analysis. Social, familial, and
hagiographical context.
Lotter, Friedrich, and Sabine
Gäbe. "Die hagiographische Literatur im deutschen Sprachraum unter
den Ottonen und Saliern (ca. 960-1130)." In
Hagiographies 4: 273-521.
Discusses 43 dossiers; then 13 more reflecting the influence of the
reform center of Siegburg.
Michalowski, Roman. "Il culto dei santi fondatori nei monasteri tedeschi dei secoli XI e XII - Proposte di ricerca." In Culto dei santi, istituzioni e classi sociali in età preindustriale, ed Sofia Boesch Gajano and Lucia Sebastiani. Collana di studi storici 1. L'Aquila: L. U. Japadre, 1984. Pp. 105-40. Not a systematic list of eleventh- and twelfth-century German monastic founders, but a possible starting point for such a list.
Köhler, Oskar. Das Bild des geistlichen Fürsten in den Viten des 10., 11. und 12. Jahrhunderts. Abhandlungen zur mittleren und neueren Geschichte 77. Berlin: Verlag für Staatsswissenschaft und Geschichte, 1935. Episcopal lives, dates, and editions (pp. 141-42).
Cou‚, Stephanie.
"Acht Bischofsviten aus der Salierzeit."
In Gesellschaftlicher
und ideengeschichtlicher Wandel im Reich der Salier,
ed. Stefan Weinfurter. Vol. 3 of
Die Salier und das Reich, ed. Stefan Weinfurter. Sigmaringen: Jan Thorbecke, 1992. Pp.
347-413. Detailed
Quellenkritik for a
somewhat arbitrary choice of eight
vitae.
Kallfelz, Hatto.
Lebenbeschreibungen einiger Bischöfe des 10. - 12. Jahrhunderts.
Ausgewählte Quellen zur deutschen Geschichte des Mittelalters 22.
Darmstadt:
Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 1973.
Haarländer, Stephanie. Vitae Episcoporum: Eine Quellengattung zwischen Hagiographie und Historiographie, untersucht an Lebensbeschreibungen von Bischöfen des Regnum Teutonicum im Zeitalter der Ottonen und Salier. Monographien zur Geschichte des Mittelalters 47. Stuttgart : Anton Hiersemann, 2000. Treats 55 vitae for 35 bishops (= 6.09% of all the bishops who held office within the study's parameters).
Rener, Monika. "Hagiographie im
deutschen Raum (1125-1220)." In Hagiographies 6:401-20
.
Region
Winheller, Ernst.
Die Lebensbeschreibungen der vorkarolingischen
Bischöfe von Trier. Rheinisches Archiv 27. Bonn: Ludwig
Röhrscheid Verlag, 1935. Examines the dating and manuscript
tradition of the interrelated
lives of more than a dozen early Trier bishops (most of these
are versions from the late tenth through the eleventh century).
To update the scholarship, use Hans Hubert Anton,
Trier im frühen Mittelalter. Quellen und Forschungen aus dem Gebiet
der Geschichte, n.f. 9 (Paderborn: Ferdinand Schöningh, 1987), pp.
235-36.
Krönert, Klaus. L’exaltation de Trèves: Écriture hagiographique et passé historique de la metropole mosellane, VIIIe-XIe siècle. Beihefte der Francia 70. Ostfildern: Jan Thorbecke Verlag, 2010. Originally a 2003 doctoral thesis, this work identifies 25 early medieval lives strictly related to Trier (concerning 8 saints) and analyzes each one critically (pp. 19-287).
Steine, Heinz Erich. "Kölner Heiligenlegenden im 10. und 11. Jahrhundert." In Kaiserin Theophanu: Begegnung des Ostens und Westens um die Wende des ersten Jahrtausends: Gedenkschrift des Kölner Schnütigen-Museums zum 1000. Todesjahr der Kaiserin, ed. Anton von Euw und Peter Schreiner. 2 vols. Cologne: Schnütigen-Museum, 1991. Pp. 125-35. Two passions and two translations.
Klüppel, Theodor.
Reichenauer Hagiographie zwischen Walahfrid und Berno. Sigmaringen: Jan Thorbecke, 1980. More
than a dozen
lives,
translationes, and
relic commemorations associated with Reichenau from the ninth
through the mid eleventh century. Note, however, the review by
François Dolbeau in Francia
9 (1981): 735-36.
Schwaiger, Georg.
Bavaria Sancta: Zeugen christlichen Glaubens in Bayern. 3
vols. Regensburg: Friedrich Pustet, 1970-73.
Graus, František. "Sozialgeschichtliche Aspekte der Hagiographie der Merowinger- und Karolingerzeit: Die Viten der Heiligen des südalemannischen Raumes und die sogenannten Adelsheiligen." In Mönchtum, Episkopat und Adel zur Gründungszeit des Klosters Reichenau, ed. Arno Borst. Vorträge und Forschungen 20. Sigmaringen: Jan Thorbecke, 1974. Pp. 131-76. Includes an initial extensively documented section on the saints and lives from early medieval southern Germany (pp. 131-59).
.
Kunze, Konrad. "Deutschsprachige Hagiographie von den Anfängen bis
1350." In Hagiographies
2:211-38.
Williams-Krapp, Werner.
"Deutschsprachige Hagiographie von ca. 1350 bis ca. 1550." In
Hagiographies 1:
267-288.
Kunze, Konrad, "Projekt einer
Bibliotheca Hagiographica
Germanica." Analecta Bollandiana 90
(1972), 299-322. Work in progress.
A a proposed project more ambitious than its Latin
counetrparts,
proposing to index thoroughly the manuscript witnesses (like the
Bibliotca agiografica italiana).
E. GREECE, BULGARIA,
RUSSIA , SERBIA
Krumbacher, Geschichte der byzantinischen Literatur. See I. C. above.
Beck, Kirche und theologische
Literatur im byzantinischen Reich. See I. C. above.
Erhard, Überlieferung und Bestand der hagiographischen und homiletischen Literatur der grieschischen Kirche. See I. C. above.
Nesbitt, John W. "A Geographical and Chronological Guide to Greek Saint Lives." See BHG, 3rd ed., I.A. above.
.
Dumbarton Oaks Hagiography Database. Translations of lives of Byzantine saints whose deaths dates fall between 700 and 999, catalogued by BHG numbers and linked to the available editions of Greek texts. The new free on-line edition grew out of a 1991-98 series of floppy disks, a project co-directed by Alexander Kazhdan and Mary-Alice Talbot, and sponsored by the Dumbarton Oaks Institute and the Andrew W, Mellon Foundation. The on-line version, includes a list of the saints, noting some omisisons (pp. 7-10 and 16-18) and a bibliographical introduction to this hagiography (p. 111).
Efthymiadis,Stephanos, and Vincent Déroche. "Greek Hagiography in Latin Antiquity (Fourth – Seventh Centuries). In Ashgate Research Companion to Byzantine Hagiography, ed. Efthymiadis. 2 vols. 1:35-94. Burlington, VT : Ashgate, 2011-2014. Lists primary sources cited (pp. 79-86).
Lequeux, Xavier. "Latin
Hagiogaphical Literrature Translated into Greek." In
Ashgate Research Companion to Byzantine Hagiography, ed. Efthymiadis. 2 vols. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2011-2014.
1:385-99, primary sources listed 1: 395-96.
Efthymiadis, Stephanos. “The
Byzantine Hagiographer and His Audience in the Ninth and Tenth
Centuries. In Metaphrasis:
Reflections and Audiences in Middle Byzantine Hagiography.
Edited by C. Hogel. Oslo: Research Council of Norway, 1996.
Pp. 59-80. Reprinted in Efthymiadis,
Hagiography in Byzantium:
Literature, Social History, and Cult. Variorum Collected Studies
989. Farnham: Ashgate, 2011. Includes a “Chronological List of Lives
of Saints (9th-10th Century).”
Costa-Louillet, Germaine. "Saints de Constantinople aux VIIIe, IXe et Xe siècles." Byzantion 24 (1955-56), 179-263, 453-511, and 25-27 (1957), 783-852. Discusses the dossiers of eighteen saints of the eighth through tenth centuries who were connected with Constantinople.
.
Paschlidis, Symeon A. "The
Hagiography of the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries."
In
Ashgate Research Companion to
Byzantine Hagiography,
ed.
Efthymiadis 2 vols. 1:143-71. Burlington:
Ashgate, 2011-2014. Lists primary sources cited (pp. 161-65).
Patlagean, Evelyne. "Sainteté et
pouvoir." In The Byzantine
Saint:
University of Birmingham Fourteenth Spring Symposium of Byzantine
Studies, ed. Sergei Hackel. Studies Supplementary to Sobornost 5.
London: Fellowship of St. Alban and St. Sergius, 1981.
Pp. 88-105, esp. 88-92.
A provisional list of about thirty Byzantine saints, not
including saints of the iconoclast controversy or of southern Italy,
who lived from the ninth through the eleventh century and had
lives written during this
same period.
White, Monica. Military Saints in Byzantium and Rus, 900-1200. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013.
Patlagean, Evelyne. "Le Basileus
assassiné et la sainteté impériale." In
Media in Francia: Receuil de mélanges offert à Karl Ferdinard Werner à
l'occasion de son 65e anniversaire par ses amis et collègues
français. Paris:
Hérault-Éditions, 1989.
Pp. 345-61.
Surveys the sources, lives
and other genres, that attribute sanctity to particular emperors.
Talbot, Alice-Mary. "Old Wine in
New Bottles: The
Rewriting of Saints' Lives in the Palaeologan Period."
In The Twilight of
Byzantium: Aspects of
Cultural and Religious History in the Late Byzantine Empire, Papers
from the Colloquium Held at Princeton University, 8-9 May 1989,
ed. Slobodan
Ćurčić and Doula Mouriki. Princeton:
Department of Art and Archeology Program in Hellenic Studies, 1991.
Pp. 15-26. Alludes to a
list in progress of Palaeologan hagiography devoted to
post-apostolic saints:
this then included 36 vitae devoted to 32 contemporary holy men
(none to holy women); it also included ca. 125
vitae, by about 45
different authors, devoted to saints who lived before the thirteenth
century.
Talbot, Alice-Mary. "Hagiography
in Late Byzantium (1204-1453)." In
Ashgate Research Companion to
Byzantine Hagiography ed. Efthymiadis.. 2 vols.
1:95-142. Burlington: Ashgate, 2011-2014. 1:173-95. Offers a
primary source bibliography but lmits it to items published after
1984, leaving earlier research to the BHG and BHG Suppl.
Greece:
Delehaye, Hippolyte. "Saints de
Thrace and de Mésie." Analecta Bollandiana
31 (1912): 161-300.
Martyrs through the seventh century.
da Costa-Louillet, Germaine. "Saints de Grèce aux VIIIe, IXe et Xe siècles." Byzantion 31 (1961): 309-369. Analysis of texts concerning 8 saints who lived in Greece in the eighth, ninth, and tenth centuries.
Greenfield,
Richard P. H., and
Alice-Mary Talbot (eds). Holy
Men of Mount Athos. Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library 40.
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2016. Curpus of six
Athonite lives, presented in Greek with facing translations.
Hagiographica Cypria. Sancti Barnabae Laudatio auctore Alexandro Monacho, Sanctorum Bartholomaei et Barnabae Vita e menologio imperiali deprompta, ed. Peter Van Deun; Vita Sancti Auxbii, ed. Jacques Noret. Corpus Christianorum Series Graeca 26. Turnhout: Brepols, 1993. Editions of texts from 6th, 7th, and early 11th centuries, with an introduction to the hagiographical context.
Delehaye, Hippolyte. "Saints de Chypre." Analecta Bollandiana 26 (1907): 161-301. Cypriot saints of the Byzantine and crusader eras.
Bozilŏv, Ivan. "L'hagiographie bulgare et l'hagiographie byzantine:
Unité
et divergence." In
Hagiographie, cultures et sociétés IVe-XIIe siècles: Actes du Colloque organisé à Nanterre et
à Paris (2-5 mai 1979).
Paris: Études
Augustiniennes / Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique et de
l'Université de Paris X Nanterre, 1981. Sources for five Byzantine saints
lives by Bulgarian authors
and nine lives of
Bulgarian saints from Byzantine sources ( pp.
535-557)..
Serbia:
Yanich, Voyeslav, and C. Patrick
Hankey. Lives of the Serbian
Saints. Translations
of Christian Literature ser. 7.
London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1921.
Sixteen Serbian saints, mostly medieval rulers, have
lives translated here, but
in versions taken from the mid-nineteenth-century Serbian
martyrology.
Bojović, Boško I.
L'Idéologie monarchique dans les hagio-biographies dynastiques du moyen
âge serbe. Orientalia Christiana Analecta 248. Rome:
Pontificio Istituto Orientale, 1995. Analytical narrative
survey of the literary tradition.
Hollingsworth, Paul.
The Hagiography of Kievan Rus': Translated with an Introduction.
Harvard Library of Early
Ukrainian Literature, English Translations 2.
Cambridge:
Ukrainian Research Institute of Harvard University, 1992.
"This volume presents English translations of the six
principal hagiographic works written in Rus' in the pre-Mongol
period." (p. xiii)
Additional materials and related texts are discussed.
Ingham, Norman W. "The Sovereign as Martyr, East and West." Slavic and East European Journal 17 (1973), 1-17. Places three Czech and Rus' lives of martyred rulers into their larger context.
General:
Ussani, Vincenzo. "Index Latinitatis Italicae Medii Aevi Antiquioris per
Litterarum Ordinem Digestus."
Archivum Latinitatis Medii
Aevi (Bulletin du Cange) 6 (1931): 1-96. This provisional
index of sources for a proposed
Dizionario
Latino dell' alto medioevo presents 1175
alphabetized items written from the fifth through the tenth century.
An appended
"Index Chronicus" arranges the pieces century by century, and
identifies them with short titles that include passio,
vita, miracula, etc. (pp. 91-96).
Penco, Gregorio.”L’erermitismo irregolare in Italia nei secoli
XI-XII” Benedictina 32 (1985): :201-21.
Ancient:
DuFourcq, Albert. Étude sur les Gesta Martyrum romains. Bibliothèque des Écoles françaises d'Athènes et de Rome 83. Paris: Albert Fontemoing, 1900. Discusses the passiones of the martyrs of Rome (which tend to be late romances), referring to the BHL to ground the texts (pp. 33-37).
Lanéry, Cécile. "Hagiographie d"Italie
(300-550): I. Les passions latines composée en Italie. In
Hagiographies 5:15-369. Discusses 45 dossiers.
Gioanni, Stéphane. "Hagiographie d'Italie
(300-550): II. Les vies des saints latines composée en Italie de la paix
constantinienne au milieu du VIe siècle." In Hagiographies 5:371-445.
Discusses four saints with
lives, not
passions.
Lanzoni, Francesco.
Le Diocesi d'Italia dalle
origini al principio del secolo VII.
2 vols. Studi e testi 35 and 35bis. Faenza:
Stabilimento Grafico F. Lega, 1927.
Contains good analyses of
lives of early Italian
bishops.
Delehaye, Hippolyte. "L'hagiographie ancienne de
Ravenne." Analecta Bollandiana
47 (1929): 5-30. For
more current scholarship, see Friedrich Wilhelm Deichmann,
Ravenna: Haupstadt des spätantiken Abandlandes, 4 vols. in 2.
Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1969-89.
2(3):175-83.
Northern Italy:
Everett, Nicholas. "The Hagiography of Lombard Italy,"
Hagiographica 7 (2000):
49-126. Using Dekkers and
Ussani, he develops and discusses a corpus of texts pertaining to
the Lombard Regnum: seven from the north (pp. 57-100; five from central Italy (pp.
100-127; and many interrelated, badly transmitted, late attested
texts from Spoleto (pp. 117-24).
Everett, Nicholas, trans. Patron Saints of Early Medieval Italy, AD c. 350-800: History and Hagiography in Ten Biographies. Durham Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Translations 5. Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies, 2016. English translations of ten early medieval Italian saints lives.
.
Tomea, Paolo. "L'agiografia dell'Italia Settentrionale (950-1130)."
In Hagiographies 3:99-178
Paolo Golinelli. "Italia Settentrionale (1130-1220)."
In Hagiographies 1:125-53.
Diocesi di Milano,
ed. Adriano Caprioli, Antonio Rimoldi, and Luciano Vaccaro. 2
vols. Storia religiosa
della Lombardia 9-10.
Brescia: Ed. La
Scuola, 1990, includes a list of
Milanese hagiography (pp. 873-96)
Cremascoli, Giuseppe.
"La Santità:
Figure e testi agiografici."
In Diocesi di Lodi.
Storia religiosa della Lombardia 7. Brescia:
Editrice La Scuola, 1989.
Treats the martyrs, bishops, and ascetics of Lodi (pp. 190-208).
Benecchi, Roberto.
Santi di Parma Provincia.
Parma: PPS Editrice,
1999. 38 saints and
blesseds associated with Parma, several only by way of relic cult.
14 are modern and contemporary.
Lehmijoki-Gardner, Maiju.
Wordly Saints:
Social Interaction of Dominican Penitent Women in Italy,
1200-1500.
Biblioteca historica 35.
Helsinki: Suomen
Historiallinen Seura, 1999.
Based on the vitae
of 19 Dominican penitents (pinzochere) in late medieval Italy.
Musolino, Giovanni, Antonio Niero, and Silvio
Tramontin. Santi e beati
veneziani: Quaranta
profili. Biblioteca
agiografica veneziana 1.
Collana storico dello "Studium Cattolico Veneziano" 6.
Venice: Edizioni
Studium Cattolico Veneziano, 1963.
Emphatically devotional, but based on an extensive knowledge
of Venetian hagiographical tradition.
Solid source bibliographies.
Tramontin, Silvio, and Giorgio Fedalto.
Santi e beati vissuti a Venezia.
Venice: Studium
Cattolico Veneziano, 1971.
Delehaye, Hippolyte. "Saints d'Istrie et Dalmatie." Analecta Bollandiana 18 (1899): 369-411.
Central Italy:
Licciardello, Pierluigi. "Agiografia Latina dell'Italia
centrale, 950-1130." In
Hagiographies 5: 447-729. Includes more than a hundred texts
relating to new hermits, Rome, and Florence.
Degli'Innocenti, Antonella. "Agiografia Latina
dell'Italia centrale, 1130-1220." In Hagiographies 5: 731-98.
Discusses 42 dossiers.
Licciardello, Pierluigi.
Agiografia aretina
altomedievale: Testi agiografici e contesti socio-culturali ad
Arezzo tra VI e IX secolo. Millennio medievale 56. Tavarnuzze
(Florence): SISMEL Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2005.
Licciardello, Pierluigi.
"Lineamenti di agiografia camaldolese medievale (XI-XIV secolo)."
Hagiographica 11 (2004): 1-65.
D'Angelo, Eduardo. "Bibliotheca
Hagiographica Umbriae (1130-1500)." In
Hagiographies 6:107-34. Discusses 116 dossiers, mostly mendicant
saints.
.
Leonardi, Claudio. "L'agiografia romana nel secolo IX." In Hagiographie, cultures et sociétés, IVe-XIIe siècles: Actes du Colloque organisé à Nanterre et à Paris (2-5 mai 1979). Paris: Études Augustiniennes, 1981. Pp. 471-490. Leonardi does not attempt to produce an inclusive list of vitae from ninth-century Rome, but does examine a dozen lives by Anastasios Bibliothecarius and two by John the Deacon, works he charactrizes as hagiography of a "Mediterranean type" focused largely on ancient martyrs.
Kelly, J. N. D. The Oxford Dictionary of Popes. Oxford: University of Oxford Press, 1986. Short biographies of the popes, presented in chronological order with sources indicated for each. Those with an accepted cult are indicated as "ST" in the titles. To see only popes honored as saints, consult Roberto Rusconi, Santo Padre: La Santità del papa da san Pietro a Giovanni Paolo II. Rome: Viella, 2010.
Toubert, Pierre.
Les Structures du Latium médiéval:
Le Latium méridional et la Sabine du IXe siècle … la fin du
XIIe siècle. 2 vols.
Bibliothèque des Écoles française d'Athènes et de Rome 221.
Rome: École Française de Rome, 1973. Pp. 43-47.
Lists sources for eight male and two female saints from
eleventh/twelfth-century, rural northern Lazio.
Latin Southern Italy:
D'Angelo, Edoardo. "Agiografia Latina del Mezzogiorno
continentale d'Italia (750-1000)." In
Hagiographies 4: 41-134.
Juxtaposed treatments of southern Lombardy, coastal cities,
Greek lands, and monastic centers. Anonymous
passiones dominate a group
of 85 disparate dossiers on which some statistical analyses are attempted.
Limone, Oronzo. "Italia meridionale (950-1220)." In Hagiographies 2:11-60. More than 40 vitae, most from the Monte Cassino milieu.
Delehaye, Hippolyte. "Hagiographie napolitaine." Analecta Bollandiana 58 (1940): 5-64; 59 (1941): 1-33. Some updates are provide in J.-C. Moulinier, "Anastase le Bibliothecaire, hagiographe." In Memoriam Sanctorum Venerantes: Miscellanea in Onore di Monsignor Victor Saxer. Studi di Antichità cristiana 48. Rome: Pontificio istituto di archeologia cristiana, 1992). Pp. 577-86.
Manfredonia, Rosa. "Agiografia Latina del Mezzogiorno
continentale d'Italia e della Sicilia (1266-1517)." In
Hagiographies 6:15-106.
Several dozen Angevin dossiers, more than fifteen from the Aragonese
era; also ten Sicilian ones.
Sallmann, Jean Michel. "La littérature hagiographique en Italie méridionale de 1500
à 1750." In
Raccolte di vite di santi dal XIII al XVIII secolo, ed. Sofia
Boesch Gajano. Fasano di Brindisi: Schena Editore, 1990. Pp. 169-80.
From 1500 to 1750 appeared more than 300
lives of saints edited in
Naples in more than 250 titles. Sallmann offers statistical analyses
of this unusual hagiographical production and of its subjects.
Greek Southern Italy:
Siegmund, Albert. "Hagiographische Literatur."
See I.A. above.
Most of his mid-ninth through eleventh century translations from
Greek into Latin are connected with the southern Italian world (esp.
pp. 255-77).
Berschin, Walter.
Griechisch-lateinisches Mittelalter: Von Hieronymus zu Nikolaus von
Kues. Bern: Francke Verlag, 1980. Brief survey of hagiographical translation activity in
southern Italy (pp. 204-07, 252-55).
Berschin, Walter.
"Les traducteurs d'Amalfi au XIe siècle."
In
Traduction et traducteurs au
moyen âge: Actes du Colloque international du CNRS organisé à Paris,
Institut de recherche et d'histoire des textes, les 26-28 mai 1986,
ed. Geneviève Contamine.
Paris: Éditions du
Centre national de la recherche scientifique, 1989. Pp. 163-68.
Five eleventh-century translations of Greek texts, made in
Constantinople, including three lives.
da Costa-Louillet, G. "Saints de Sicile et d'Italie
méridionale aux VIIe, IXe et Xe siècles."
Byzantion 29-30 (1959-1960): 89-173. Discusses 9
lives, covering eleven
Italo-Greek saints, written from the ninth through the eleventh
century.
Cezzi, Fernando. "Per una lettura ecclesiologica della
Vite italo-greche," Nicolaus 3 (1975): 298-99.
A list of 20 lives, "incomplete but sufficiently representative."
Mario Re, "Italo-Greek Hagiography."
In Ashgate Research Companion
to Byzantine Hagiography, ed. Efthymiadis. 2
vols. 1:95-142. Burlington:: Ashgate, 2011-2014. 1: 226-56, with
primary sources pp. 248-53. Discusses "a corpus of about 40 texts
(p. 227)."
Follieri, Enrica. "Il Culto dei santi nell'Italia
greca." In La Chiesa greca in
Italia dall'VIII al XVI secolo: Atti del Convegno storico
interecclesiasle (Bari, 30 apr. - 4 magg., 1969).
3 vols. Italia
Sacra, vols. 20-22.
Padua: Antenore, 1973. 2:553-76.
Ferrante, Nicola.
Santi Italogreci in Calabria.
Rome: Edizioni Paralleo 38, 1981. Introduction, biographical
sketches, and bibliography.
Pricoco, Salvatore. "Un esempio di agiografia
regionale: La Sicilia."
In Santi e demoni
nell'alto medioevo occidentale (secoli V-XI), 7-13 aprile 1988.
2 vols. Settimane
di Studio del Centro Italiano di Studi sull'Alto Medioevo 36.
Spoleto: CISAM, 1989.
1:319-80. Discusses more
than two dozen surviving Greek and Latin early medieval texts, an
abundance which is nevertheless described as only "the tip of the
iceberg" of the Sicilian hagiography that formerly existed.
G. NORTH AFRICA, NEAR
EAST, ORIENTAL CHRISTIANITIES
Haase, Felix.
Apostel und Evangelisten in den Orientalischen šberlieferungen.
Neutestamentliche Abhandlungen 9(1-3).
Münster i. W.:
Aschendorffschen Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1922.
Near Eastern literary sources for each apostle.
Kohler, Ch. "Rerum et Personarum
Actis Sanctorum Bollandistis et Analectis Bollandianis Obviae
ad Orientem Latinum Spectant."
Revue de l'Orient latin 5 (1897): 460-561.
North Africa:
Duval, Yvette. Loca Sanctorum
Africa: Le culte des martyrs
en Afrique du IVe au VIIe siècle. 2 vols. Collection de l'École
Française de Rome. Rome:
ÉFR, 1982. Although this rich study is largely devoted to archeology
and epigraphy, the concluding "Essai d'identification" identifies
the saints honored in Late Antique North Africa (many were great
saints of the East and West, whose cults were imported), and
provides
BHL and
BHG references to the
sources (2:611-748).
Saxer, Victor.
Saints anciens d'Afrique du Nord: Textes les concernant traduits,
preséntés et annotés. Vatican City: Tipografia Poliglotta
Vaticana, 1979. Lists documents by category, including a total of
fifteen acta, passiones, and
biographies (pp. 5-10).
Then presents annotated articles on twenty four of the best
documented saints, arranged century by century (pp. 37-210).
Saxer, Victor. "Afrique latine."
In Hagiographies 1:25-95.
Egypt:
Delehaye, Hippolyte. "Les
martyres d'Égypte." Analecta
Bollandiana 40 (1922): 5-154, 299-36.
O'Leary, De Lacy.
The Saints of Egypt.
London: S.P.C.K., 1937.
Presents a Coptic calendar (pp. 34-41), and then analyzes, in
alphabetical order, the literary material on each saint, noting
editions and manuscripts of the
lives (these, although
often claiming to be based on Greek originals, survive in Sa`idic,
Bohairic, and Arabic texts; many saints are known only from sketchy
information in a fifteenth century Arabic
synaxarium).
Baumeister, Theofrid. “Die Koptischen Märtyrerlegenden.” In Martyrium, Hagiographie unnd Heiligenverehrung im christlichen Altertum. Römische Quartalschrift für christliche Altertumskunde und Kirchengeschichte 61: Supplementband. Rome: Herder, 2009. Pp.141-52.
Papaconstantinou, Ariette.
"Hagiography in Coptic." In
Ashgate Research Companion to Byzantine Hagiography, ed. Efthymiadis. 2 vols. Burlington: Ashgate, 2011-2014.
1:345-67, primary sources listed 1: 335-40.
Palestine:
Flusin, Bernhard. "Palestinian
Hagiography (Fourth to Eighth Centuries)." In
Ashgate Research Companion to
Byzantine Hagiography, ed. Efthymiadis.. 2 vols.
1:95-142. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2011-2014. 1:199-226, primary
sources listed 1: 218-224.
Jean Richard, "L"Orient latin et
le monde des missions." In
Hagiographies 1: 189-98.
Syria:
Brock, Sebastian, and Susan
Harvey. Holy Women of the
Syrian Orient.
University of California Heritage Series 13. Berkeley:
University of California Press, 1987.
Fifteen hagiographical texts devoted to holy women, translated from the
Syriac, written between the fourth and seventh centuries.
Not a complete sample, but one that makes the stories of some
little known local saints much more accessible.
Brock, Sebastian. "Syriac
Hagiography." In Ashgate
Research Companion to Byzantine Hagiography, ed.
Efthymiadis. 2 vols. 1: 259-83. Burlington: Ashgate, 2011-2014.
1: 259-83, primary sources listed 1: 271-208, marked with "E" for
Nestorian and "W" for Jacobite.
Swanson, Mark. "Arabic
Hagiography." In Ashgate
Research Companion to Byzantine Hagiography, ed.
Efthymiadis. 2 vols. Burlington: Ashgate, 2011-2014. 1:345-67,
primary sources listed 1: 360-63.
Delehaye, Hippolyte. "Saints et reliquaires d'Apamée."
Analecta Bollandiana 53
(1935):
225-44.
Georgia:
Peeters, Paulus. "Le débuts du
christianisme en Géorgie d'après les sources hagiographiques."
Analecta Bollandiana 50
(1932): 5-58.
Martin-Hisard, Bernadette.
"Georgian Hagiography." In
Ashgate Research Companion to Byzantine Hagiography, ed. Efthymiadis. 2 vols. Burlington: Ashgate, 2011-2014.
1:285-98, primary sources listed 1: 294-97.
Armenia:
Cowe, S. Peter. "Armenian
Hagiography." In Ashgate
Research Companion to Byzantine Hagiography, ed.
Efthymiadis. 2 vols. Burlington: Ashgate, 2011-2014. 1:299-322,
primary sources listed 1:318-20.
Carlé, Birte, and Anders Fröjmark. "Danemark – Suède – Finlande." In
Hagiographies 2:501-45.
Cormack, Margaret. The Saints in
Iceland: Their Veneration from the Conversion to 1400.
Subsidia Hagiographica 78. Brussels:
Bollandistes, 1994. No complete original Latin hagiographical
text survives from
Iceland, although evidence indicates that at least seven
were composed there (pp. 31-32). Vernacular works were more common,
and more
than 60 saints are commemorated in saints' sagas of varying length
in manuscripts written before 1400; vernacular hagiographical poems
were also known (pp. 32-43).
Cormack describes the literary treatments, saint by saint, in
"The Cultus of the Saints"
(pp. 69-165).
Widding, Ole, Hans
Bekker-Nielsen, and Laurence K. Shook. "The Lives of the Saints in
Old Norse Prose: A Handlist."
Mediaeval Studies 25 (1963): 294-337. Lists saints alphabetically
with sources.
Carlé, Birte. Jomfru-Fortaellingen: Et bidrag til genrehistorien. Odense University Studies in Scandinavian Languages and Literatures 12. Odense: Odense Universitetsforlag, 1985. A Danish dissertation, with English and Dutch summaries, analyzing the structure of legends of virgin saints translated into Old Norse: although featuring the lives form a single collection (pp. 33-51), the comparisons ultimately extend to virtually all female saints for whom there is substantial material in Old Norse (pp. 147-56), a corpus involving about a dozen saints, mostly martyrs.
Phelpstead, Carl. Holy Vikings: Saints' Lives in the Old Icelandic Kings' Sagas. Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Srudies, 2007. Argues that "the mutually exclusive classification of the Old Norse Lives of Scandinavian saintrs as either 'proper' Saints' Lives or 'profane' Kings' Sagas is inadequate" (p. 75). Analyzes more thna a dozen of these sources (pp. 8-38). Contextualizes them by looking at their origins in earlier genres.
Le Breton-Filippusdóttir, Steinunn. "Hagiographie vernaculaire
d'Islande et de Norvège." In
Hagiographies 3:361-451.
Díaz y Díaz, Manuel C.
Index Scriptorum Latinorum
Medii Aevi Hispanorum. 2 vols. Acta Salamanticensia, Serie de
filosofia y letras 13(1-2).
Salamanca: Universidad de Salamanca, 1958-59. A catalogue of
medieval Spanish literature in Latin, arranged century by century,
that gives BHL nos., eds.,
and mss. for the hagiographical works.
Vita, passio, and other
terms are
included in the final index. A
new edition is said to be in preparation at the Universidad de
Santiago de Compostela.
Baños Vallejo, Fernando.
La Hagiografía como género
literario en la
edad media: Tipología de doce `vidas' individuales castellanas.
Oviedo Departamento de filología española, Publicaciones
Series Maior 2. Oviedo
Departamento de filología española, 1989. Although this book is
primarily a close analysis of a dozen Spanish vernacular prose and
verse lives, it appends an
"Ensayo de un índice de la hagiografía hispano-medieval" which
offers data on 222 Latin and vernacular hagiographical texts (note
the criteria for inclusion, pp. 33-37). The Latin material relies
heavily on Díaz y Díaz' "Index."
Also surveys the evolution of Spanish
hagiography (pp. 38-58).
Walsh, John K., and Billy Bussell Thompson. Medieval Spanish Hagiography: A Bibliography. Announced as forthcoming in the series Research Bibliographies and Checklists. London: Grant & Cutler. Walsh, who died in 1990, had been working on his "hagibibliography" for many years, sharing his findings with others. Organized by saint, it was intended to include manuscripts, literary treatments and allusions, and scholarly analyses. I have not yet discovered its fate.
De Courcelles, Dominique, "Espagne de 1450-1550." In Hagiographies 1:155-88.
Deyermond, Alan. "Lost
Hagiography in Medieval Spanish:
A Tentative
Catalogue." Saints and Their Authors: In
Studies in Medieval Hispanic
Hagiography in Honor of John K. Walsh. Edited by Jane E.
Connolly, Alan Deyermond, and Brian Dutton.
Madison: Hispanic
Seminary of Medieval Studies, Ltd., 1990. Pp. 139-48. A preliminary
bibliography of 21 items, assembled as part of a larger projected
catalogue of lost works of medieval Spanish literature (600+ items).
Briesemeister, Dietrich.
"Hagiografía Latina y vernácula en la Península Ibérica (1350-1500)."
In Hagiographies
6:235-399.
Garcia de la Borbolla, Ángeles.
"Las fuentes hagiográficas hispanas en lengua vulgar (1230-1350),"
In Hagiographies 4:
134-181.
A Menology of England and Wales; Or Brief Memorials of the Ancient British and English Saints. Supplement by Richard Stanton. London: Burns & Oates Limited, 1892. This book is the result of the desire of the revived English Roman Catholic hierarchy to create its own national martyrology. Although it does not attempt any systematic survey of lives, its appendixes include a "Chronological List of Saints Named in the Menology," based upon obits taken from English calendars and legendaries, which can be cross-checked against other hagiographical reference works. Also contains a list of "Saints Belonging to the Reigning Houses of the Various Kingdoms of England" (pp. 757-62), based on the English calendars and legendaries.
Lapidge, Michael, and Rosalind Love. "The Latin Hagiography of
England and Wales (600-1550)." In
Hagiographies 3:203-325.
Rollason, D. W. "The Cults of
Murdered Royal Saints in Anglo-Saxon England."
Anglo-Saxon England 2 (1983): 1-22. Looks at twelve royal
Anglo-Saxon saints.
Ridyard, Susan J.
The Royal Saints of Anglo-Saxon England: A Study of West Saxon and East Anglian Cults.
Cambridge Studies in Medieval life and Thought, 4th ser., 9. New York:
Cambridge University Press, 1988.
The subtitle indicates the actual scope of the study, which
analyzes in detail a half dozen local cults, known largely through
late eleventh and early twelfth century lives.
Gransden, Antonia. “Anglo-Saxon Sacred Biography and Local History” and “Sacred Biography from the Reign of Henry II to John.” In Historical Writing in England c. 550 to c. 1307. London: Routledge & K. Paul, 1974. 1:67-91 and 1:296-317. Narrative discussions of Latin and vernacular hagiography.
Bartlett, Robert.
"The Hagiography of Angevin England."
In Thirteenth Century England. V:
Proceedings of the Newcastle upon Tyne Conference 1993.
Edited by P. R. Cross and S. D. Lloyd. Woodbridge: Boydell, 1995. Pp. 37-52. Treats thirty Latin compositions
from 1180-1220, of which twelve deal with saints who died after 1150
(re seven saints). Also considers twelve not-too-securely dated
French verse works and three possible prose English works ("the
Catherine group").
English Language Hagiography:
Cameron, Angus.
"A List of Old English Texts."
A Plan for the
Dictionary of Old English.
Edited by Roberta Frank and Cameron.
Toronto: Toronto University Press, 1973. Pp. 25-306. Does not
contain a specific hagiographical index, but lists texts, editions, and manuscripts.
Cross, James E. "English Vernacular Saints' Lives before 1000 A.D." In Hagiographies 2:413-427.
Whatley, Gordon. "Late Old English Hagiography, ca. 950-1150." In Hagiographies 2:429-99.
D'Evelyn, Charlotte, and Francis
A. Foster, eds. "Saints'
Legends." In
A Manual of the Writings in Middle English, 1050-1500. Ed. by J.
Burke Severs and Albert E. Hartung.
25 vols. New
Haven: Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1967-.
2:410-57.
Görlach, Manfred. "Middle English Legends, 1220-1530." In Hagiographies 1: 429-85.
Cornwall & Wales:
Doble, Gilbert Hunter.
The Saints of Cornwall,
ed. Donald Attwater.
6 vols. Chatham:
Dean and Chapter of Truro, 1960 (vol. 1); Oxford:
The Holywell Press, 1962-1970 (vols. 2-6). Doble, a Cornish
antiquarian, wrote 49 pamphlets in the Cornish Saints Series,
published between 1921 and 1949, most of which are now unobtainable
except as republished here.
His saint-by-saint studies, arranged here in regional
volumes, include data on surviving
vitae.
Orme, Nicholas.
The Saints of Cornwall. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.
Doble, Gilbert Hunter. Lives of
the Welsh Saints, ed. D.
Simon Evans. 2nd ed.
Cardiff: University of
Wales Press, 1971. This brings together studies on five Welsh
saints, highlighting Welsh saints who had Cornish ties.
Tatlock, J.S.P.
"The Dates of the Arthurian Saints' Legends." Speculum 14 (1939): 345-65.
Examines the vitae
of five Insular and two Breton saints, in which Arthur makes early
appearances.
Wade-Evans, A.W.
Vitae Sanctorum Britanniae et Genealogiae. University of Wales Board
of Celtic Studies History and Law Series 9.
Cardiff: University of Wales Press Board, 1944. Its contents
are supplemented by a summary survey of published Welsh
lives (p. viii).
Miller, Molly.
The Saints of Gwynedd. Studies in Celtic History 1.
London: Boydell, 1979.
Bibliography lists fourteen relevant
vitae and their editions
(p. xiv); an appended list of 170 eponyms lists
vitae if they exist.
Henken, Elissa R.
Traditions of the Welsh Saints. Suffolk: D. S. Brewer, 1987. Lists
the sources for 47 saints who spent the major part of their careers
in Wales and whose lore was preserved by the Welsh.
Juxtaposes a variety of Latin, vernacular, and folkloric
sources, but the entry for each saint does include
vitae if they exist. Offers a general discussion of Latin and vernacular
lives (pp. 5-14).
Henken, Elissa R.
The Welsh Saints: A
Study in Patterned Lives.
Suffolk: D. S. Brewer, 1991. Compares folklore sources with
hagiographical sources for approximately 47 Welsh saints.
Ireland:
Colgan, John. Acta Sanctorum
Hiberniae. 1645, reprinted. Dublin: Stationery Office, 1948.
An unfinished answer to the
Bollandist project, containing Irish saints whose feasts fell
January through March.
Kenney, James Francis. The
Sources for the Early History of
Ireland--Ecclesiastical: An Introduction
and a Guide. Records of Civilization 11.
New York:
Columbia University Press, 1929. Rpt., with some limited corrections
by Ludwig Bieler, New York:
Octagon Books, 1966 and 1968. [The 2nd ed. is rpt. Blackrock:
Four Courts Press, 1993.]
A source analysis, proceeding item by item, century by
century.
Lapidge, Michael and Richard
Sharpe. A Bibliography of
Celtic-Latin Literature 400-1200. Dublin: Royal Irish Academy,
1985. Sources, presented chronologically, grouped by region and
authenticity. Hagiographical
works are listed under known authors or in genre sections.
Created as an index of sources for the Royal Irish Academy's
Dictionary of Medieval Latin from Celtic Sources. General
bibliographical information on hagiography included (pp. 33, 101,
247). Some corrections
are noted by George Brown in
Speculum 64 (1989): 461-62.
Sharpe, Richard. Medieval Irish Saints' Lives: An Introduction to Vitae Sanctorum Hiberniae. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991. Compares texts in the three major manuscript collections of Irish lives to individually surviving texts.
Máire Herbert.
Iona, Kells,
and Derry: The History and Hagiography of the Monastic Familia of
Columba. Oxford: Clarendon, 1988. Describes published
editions of Columban lives (pp. 209-10) and translates the Irish
life of Columcille (pp. 211-86).
Carey, John, Máire Herbert, and
Pádraig Ó Riain, eds. Studies
in Irish Hagiography: Saints and Scholars. Dublin: Four Courts
Press, 2001. Individual studies largely devoted to the Columban
tradition, including discussions of sometimes ahistorically
Gaelicized "Columban"
saints on the Continent.
Herbert, Maíre, "Latin and Vernaacular Hagiography of Ireland from
the Origins to the Sixteenth Century." In
Hagiographies 3:327-360.
Plummer, Charles. "A Tentative
Catalogue of Irish Hagiography." In Miscellanea Hagiographica Hibernica,
ed. Plummer. Subsidia Hagiographica
15. Brussels: Société
des Bollandistes, 1925.
Irish lives of Irish
saints (pp. 179-97); Irish anecdotes (pp. 198-224); other Irish
hagiographical genres (pp. 225-33); Latin
lives (pp. 234-54); Irish
lives of Non-Irish saints
(pp. 255-71). This
builds on Plummer's Vitae
Sanctorum Hiberniae, 2 vols. Oxford:
Clarendon, 1910.
National Library of Ireland.
"Saints' Lives and Legends" and "Miscellaneous Legends."
In Bibliography of
Irish Philology and of Printed Irish Literature.
Dublin:
Department of Agriculture and Technical Instruction, 1913; rpt. New
York: Johnson Reprint
Corporation, 1970. Pp. 234-41, 241-43.
Sections of a bibliography of printed works related to Irish
language and literature, down to the end of 1912.
Scotland:
Macquarrie, Alan, "Medieval
Scotland." In Hagiographies
1: 487-501.
Macquarrie, Alan, ed.
Legends of Scottish Saints: Readings, Hymns, and Prayers for the
Commemorations of Scottish Saints in the Aberdeen Breviary.
Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2012,
III.
LISTS OF VITAE ARRANGED BY TOPIC
Neutestamentliche Apokryphen in deutscher Übersetzung.ed. Wilhelm Schneemelcher, transl. into German by Edgar Hennecke. 6th ed. [the 5th was a major revision; the 6th is a corrected version with only one piece of supplementary material.] 2 vols. Tübingen: J.C.B. Mohr, 1990. Englished as New Testament Apocrypha: Revised Edition, ed. Wilhelm Schneemelcher, transl. Robert McLachlan Wilson. Westminster: James Clarke., 1990-92.
Lipsius, R.A., and M. Bonnet, eds.
Acta Apostolorum Apocrypha, 3 vols. in 2.
Leipzig: H.
Mendelssohn, 1891-1903.
Söder, Rosa. Die
apokryphen Apostelgeschichten und die romanhafte Literatur der
Antike. Würzburger
Studien zur Altertumswissenschaft 3.
Stuttgart: W. Kohlhammer, 1932. Brief discussion
of the texts (pp. 6-21).
Schermann, Theodor.
Propheten- und Apostellegenden
nebst Jüngerkatalogen des Dorotheus und Verwandte Texte. Texte
und Untersuchungen zur Geschichte der altchristlichen Literatur
31(2). Leipzig:
J.C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung, 1907. Detailed investigation
of early legends and their sources.
Tomea, Paolo.
Tradizione apostolica e coscienza cittadina a Milano nel
medioevo: La
leggenda di san Barnaba.
Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Bibliotheca Erudita,
Studi e documenti di storia e filologia 2.
Milan: Vita e
Pensiero, 1993. Pp. 1-16. Lists nearly two dozen Western cults of
apostolic founders (not exhaustive) and provides bibliographical
citations.
Michel Sot, “La Rome antique dans l’hagiographie épiscopale en Gaule.” In Roma antica nel Medioevo: Mito, rappresentazioni, sopravvivenze nella 'Respublica Christiana' dei secoli IX-XIII, atti della quattordicesima Settimana internazionale di studio, Mendola, 24-28 agosto 1998. Milan: Vita e Pensiero, 2001. 163-88.
Haase, Felix.
Apostel und Evangelisten in den Orientalischen Überlieferungen.
See II. G. above.
Saxer, Victor.
Saints anciens
d'Afrique du Nord.
See II. G. above.
Duchesne, Louis.
Fastes épiscopaux.
See II. C. above.
Leclercq, Henri.
"Légendes apostoliques" / "Légendes gallicanes."
See II. C. above.
Dolbeau, François.
Prophètes,
apôtres
et disciples dans les traditions chrétiennes d’Occident: Vies brèves
et lists en latin.
Subsidia Hagiographica 92.
Brussels: Bollandistes, 2012.
A collection of studies related to the neglected genre of
ancient and medeival lists of apostles and
disciples, some of which contain abbreviated biographies. 15 edited here.
Bastiaaensen, A. A. R., et al.
Atti e passioni dei martyri.
Vicenza: Arnaoldo Mondadori, 1987.
The editor introduces the genre, its sources, and its
significance. Scholars
edit and comment on eleven of the
acta sincera.
Pierre Maraval, ed. Actes et
Passions des martyrs des premiers siècles.
Paris: Cerf, 2010. 27 annotated texts.On new pieces added or that
should have been, see Analecta
Bollandiana 28 (2010): 420.
Scorza Barcellona, Francesco. "Agli inizi dell'agiografia
occidentale." In Hagiographies
3:17-97.
Musurillo, Herbert
Lanzoni, Francesco.
Le Diocesi d'Italia dalle
origini al principio del secolo VII.
See II. F. above.
Duchesne, Louis. Fastes épiscopaux. See II. C. above.
Köhler, Oskar.
Das Bild des geistlichen Fürsten.
See II. D. above.
Haarländer, Stephanie.
Vitae Episcoporum. See II. D. above.
Kallfelz, Hatto.
Lebensbeschreibungen einiger Bischöfe. See II. D above.
Winheller, Ernst.
Die Lebensbeschreibungen der vorkarolingischen Bischöfe von Trier.
See II. D. above.
Sot, Michel.
Gesta Episcoporum, Gesta Abbatum. Typologie des sources du moyen
âge occidental 37.
Turnhout: Brepols, 1981. Offers a dated list of redactions of
Gesta Episcoporum from the
6th up to the 13th cent. (p. 40).
The same list is reprinted in his "Rhétorique et technique
dans les préfaces de gesta episcoporum (IXe-XIIe s.),"
Cahiers de civilisation
médiévale 28 (1985): 182. These are not hagiographical texts per
se, but sections of them are occasionally used as liturgical
readings.
Hermits:
Heuclin, Jean.
Aux origines monastiques de la Gaule du nord. See II. C. above.
Howe, John. "Greek Influence on the Eleventh-Century
Western Revival of Hermitism."
Ph.D. diss., University of California, 1979. Table 1,
pp.18-33, and Appendix B, pp.213-360, list and analyze sources for
seven Italo-Greek, seventeen Italo-Latin, and sixty five northern
European
lives of hermit saints
written between 970 and 1070.
Benedictines:
Acta Sanctorum Ordinis Sancti Benedicti (A.D. 500-1100. 9 vols.
Ed. Luc d'Achery and Jean Mabillon. Paris: Louis Billaine, 1668-
1701. 2nd ed. = Venice:
Sebastian Colet & Joseph Bettinelli, 1733-40.
Vols. 1-2 and 3(1) of the Venice edition are rpt. in
Matascone: Fratres Protat, 1935. The volumes are
accessible
online through the Bibliothèque
nationale's Source Gallica initiative.
Because these
AAOSB editions of
Benedictine hagiographical texts are organized century by century,
on the basis of when their heroes lived, they have been used for chronological studies of Benedictine saints.
Zimmermann. Kalendarium Benedictinum. See I. B. above.
Dalarun, Jacques. "La morts des saints fondateurs de
Martin à François." In Les
fonctions des saints dans le monde occidental (IIIe-XIIIe siècle:
Actes du Colloque organisé par l'École française de Rome avec le
concours de l'Université de Rome "La Sapienza," Rome, 27-29 octobre
1988, Collection de l'ÉFR 149 (Rome: ÉFR, 1991), pp. 194-215, esp. 213-15.
Based upon a list of about sixty founders of religious
communities who flourished from the fourth through the early
thirteenth century and had theirdeath scenes recorded by their
hagiographers. The
appended list includes BHL
numbers and edition references. "Loin de nous l'idée d'exhaustivité:
il s'agit que d'un sondage" (p. 195).
Carthusians:
Wallis, Benedict.
Elenco dei Certosini che in qualsiasi modo hanno ricevuto il titolo
di santo o di beato.
Edited by James Hogg. Analecta Cartusiana 35; Spiritualität Heute
und Gestern 12. Salzburg:
Universität Salzburg Institut für Anglistik und
Amerikanistik, 1991. Pp.
1-48. A list of nearly 90 Carthusian saints (medieval and modern),
compiled in 1964. Refers only to secondary literature, so that
considerable effort would still be needed to isolate a
corpus of hagiographical
texts.
Praemonstratensians:
De Clerck, D. Hagiologe: Vie des saints, bienheureux et personnages considerable de
l'Ordre de Prémontré.
Windberg:
Poppe-Verlag, 2005.
Cistercians:
Lennsen, Seraphino.
Hagiologium Cisterciense.
2 vols. Spirit duplicated at the monastery of B.M. de Villa Regia,
near Tilburg in the Netherlands, 1948-49. Solid list of Cistercian
saints and beati, summarizes
lives and specifies sources.
du Monstier, Arturo [d. 1662].
Martyrologium Franciscanum. Paris Edmundum Covterot, 1638; a reissue ed. Ignatius Beschin and Julianus Palazzolo.
Rome: Libr. Colegii S. Antonii, 1938.
Wadding, Luke [d. 1657].
Scriptores Ordinis Minorum.
1650, rpt. Frankfurt/Main: Minerva G.M.B.H., 1967; Bologna:
Forni, 1978. This
alphabetical listing of Franciscan authors includes an index of those
who wrote "Vitae Sanctorum"
(pp. xxxij-xxxiv).
Sbaralea, Hyacinthus.
Supplementum et Castigatio ad Scriptores
Trium Ordinum S. Francisci a Waddingo, Aliisve Descriptos,
new ed., 3 vols. 1936, rpt. Bologna:
Forni, 1978. A supplement to Wadding, to be used with care.
Paciocco, Roberto. "Santi e
martiri francescani del XIV secolo."
In Da Francesco ai
"Catalogi Sanctorum":
Livelli istituzionali e immagini agiografiche nell'Ordine
Francescano (secoli XIII-XIV).
Collectio Assisiensis 20.
Assisi: Edizioni
Porziuncola, 1990. Pp. 159-70. Lists 77 "saints" and their literary
memorials: most are
known only through the Franscican "catalogs of saints" but many have
lives.
Vauchez, André.
"L'ideal de sainteté dans le mouvement féminin
franciscain aux XIIIe et XIVe siècles."
In Movimento religioso femminile e francescanesimo nel secolo XIII:
Atti del VII Convegno internazionale, Assisi, 11-13 ottobre
1979. Assisi:
Società internazionale di studi francescani, 1981. Pp. 315-37, esp.
315. Lists women connected to the Franciscan milieu who had a papal
process between 1198 and 1431 (half of all women so honored).
Repertorium sermonum Latinorum Medii Aevi ad Laudem sancti Francisci
Assisiensis. Ed. Aleksander Horowski. = Subsidia Scientifica
Franciscalia 13. Rome: Fra Istituto storico dei cappuccino, 2013.
1049 sermons to ca. 1500.
D'Alatri, Mariano. Santi e santità nell'Ordine Cappuccino. 3 vols. Rome: Postulazione generale dei Cappuccini, 1976-82. 146 biographies, with bibliographies, from the 1500 and 1600s, the 1700 and 1800s, and the 1900s.
Dubreil-Arcin, Agnés.
Vies de saints, légendes de soi:
L'écriture
hagiographique dominicaine jusqu'au
Speculum sanctorale de Bernard
Gui.
Hagiologia 7.
Turnhout: Brepols. 2011.
Dal Pino, Franco Andrea. Spazi e
figure lungo la storia dei Servi di Santa Maria, secoli XIII-XX.
Italia Sacra 55. Rome: Herder, 1997.
Discusses a foundation narrative and several medieval
lives (see esp. 258-59, 608-82).
Folz, Robert.
Les saints reines du
moyen âge en occident (VIe-XIIIe siècles). Subsidia Hagiographica 76. Brussels:
Bollandistes, 1992.
Seven early medieval and five high medieval queens, with cult
data, listed pp. 176-77. Subchapters are devoted to each one.
How these far-from-comprehensive examples were selected is
not indicated.
Folz, Robert.
Les saints rois du
moyen âge en occident (VIe-XIIIe siècles).
Subsidia Hagiographica 68.
Brussels: Bollandistes, 1984.
Contains subchapters devoted to major examples of royal
martyrs (16) and confessors (13), for which the relevant narrative
sources are cited.
"Vitae Sanctorum Generis Regii."
Monumenta Germaniae Historica
Scriptorum Rerum Merovingicarum. Hannover:
Hahn, 1888. 3:329-524.
Editions of nine vitae of Merovingian royal saints.
Graus, František.
Volk, Herrsche und
Heiliger im Reich der Merowinger: Studien zur Hagiographie der Merowingerzeit.
Prague:
Nakladatelství Československé akademie věd, 1965. Pp. 300-437.
Analyzes Merovingian royal cults and their functions, listing
the relevant material incidentally.
A Menology of England and Wales. Includes "Saints Belonging to
the Reigning Houses of the Various Kingdoms of England" (pp.
757-62). See II.J. above.
Rollason, D. W. "The Cults of
Murdered Royal Saints in Anglo-Saxon England." See II. J. above.
Ridyard, Susan J.
The Royal Saints of Anglo-Saxon England. See II. J. above.
Corbet, Patrick.
Les saints ottoniens.
See II. D. above.
Klaniczay, Gábor.
"From Sacral Kingship to Self-Representation.
In Hungarian and
European Royal Saints ..."
See II. B. above.
Patlagean, Evelyne. "Le Basileus assassině." See II. G. above.
Ingham, Norman W.
"The Sovereign as Martyr, East and West."
See II. G. above.
Graus, František.
"Sozialgeschichtliche Aspekte."
See II. D. above.
Vauchez, André.
"Une nouveauté du XIIe siècle:
Les saints laïcs
de l'Italie communale."
See II. F. above.
Cornell du Houx, Adrian.
"Journeys to Holiness: Lay Sanctity in the Central Middle
Ages, c.970-c.1120" (PhD thesis: Lancaster University, 2015). Not
seen, uses a sample of lives.
Dunbar, Agnes.
Dictionary of Saintly Women. London: G. Bell, 1904-05. Some
bibliographical information with most entries.
Brock, Sebastian, and Susan
Harvey. Holy Women of the
Syrian Orient. See
II. G. above.
McNamara, Jo Ann, and John E, Halborg.
Sainted Women of the Dark Ages.
Durham: Duke
University Press, 1992.
Seventeen female saints who are discussed in turn,a group that
consists largely of highborn Merovingian ladies. McNamara claimed that
this book was "intended to cover the whole of its designated turf" and
that "I believe we got all of the contemporary lives of Frankish
women of the sixth and seventh centuries" (Personal communication,
Oct. 14, 1992). The critical apparatus is solid, with extensive
information contained in the first note to each text.
Heene, Katrien. "Female Saints
and Their Lives." See I. A.
above.
Folz, Robert.
Les saintes reines. See
III. F. above.
Cazelles, Brigitte.
The Lady as a Saint. See
II. F. above.
Bell, Rudolph M. Holy Anorexia. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1985.
Lists sources for 261 female saints and holy persons by date
of death from 1206 to 1934. The sample is based largely on
information from the
Bibliotheca Sanctorum.
Three tables give further statistical information.
Atkinson, Clarissa W.
The Oldest Vocation: Christian Motherhood in the Middle Ages.
Ithaca: Cornell
University Press, 1991. From the fifth chapter, "Holiness and
Families in the Later Middle Ages," can be assembled an unsystematic
list of late medieval saints who were mothers.
Carl, Birte.
Jomfru-Fortaellingen.
See II. H. above.
Blank, Walter.
Die Nonnenviten des 14. Jahrhunderts. Eine Studie zur hagiographischen
Literatur des Mittelalters unter besonderer Berucksichtung des
Visionen und ihrer Lichtphänomene. Inaugural-Dissertation zur
Erlangung der Dokturwürde der Philosophischen Fakultät der
Albert-Ludwigs-Universität zu Freiburg i. Br.
Engen: Walter
Blank, 1962.
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Delooz, Pierre.
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See I.B. above.
Kemp, Eric Waldram.
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Oxford: Oxford
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A final appendix lists "English Processes of Canonization from 1198
to the End of the Middle Ages," gives
BHL nos., and refers back
to the text for discussions of unsuccessful initiatives.
Vauchez,
André.
La Sainteté en Occident
aux derniers siècles du moyen âge d'après les Procès de canonisation
et les documents hagiographiques.
Bibliothèque des Écoles françaises d'Athènes et de Rome 241.
Rome: ÉFRome, 1981.
Lists the surviving medieval
processus documents for the 71 known papal canonizations made
between 1185 and 1431 (pp. 655-65).
However, following the success of Vauchez's work, several
processus listed here as unpublished have received first
editions. Associated vitae
are also identified (pp. 667-76).
Discusses saints by type.
John Howe