List #11A: Renaissance and Reformation Saints

 

 

Primary Sources:

 

Foxe, John. Book of Martyrs, edited and abridged by G. A. Williamson.  Boston:  Little, Brown, 1965.

 

The Autobiography of St. Ignatius Loyola,  translated by Joseph F. O’Callaghan.  New York:  Harper Torchbooks, 1974.

 

John Gerard:  The Autobiography of an Elizabethan, translated by Philip Caraman.  Second edition.  London:  Longmans, Green and Co., 1956.

 

The Autobiography of Venerable Marie of the Incarnation, O.S.U.:  Mystic and Missionary, translated by John J. Sullivan.  Chicago:  Loyola University Press, 1964.

 

The Life of Saint Teresa of Avila by Herself, translated by J.M. Cohen.  Baltimore: Penguin Books, 1957. 

                                         

A Man of Singular Virtue, Being a Life of Sir Thomas More by His Son-in-Law William Roper and a Selection of More’s Letters.  London:  Folio Society, 1980.

 

The Lives of Women Saints of our Contrie of England.  Early English Text Society Original Series, vol. 86.  London:  N. Trübner & Co., 1886.

 

Some hagiographical material is contained in major early modern source collections such as English Recusant Literature (394 vols., London:  Scolar Press, 1971-79) and  Publications of the Parker Society  (55 vols.  1849-1855, rpt. New York:  Johnson Reprints, 1968) All sorts of incunabula material is now available in databases and on-line.   

 

                                                        

Secondary Sources:

 

Burke, Peter. “How to Be a Counter Reformation Saint.”  Religion and Society in Early Modern Europe, 1500-1800, edited by Kaspar von Greyerz.  London:  George Allan and Unwin, 1984.  Pp. 45-55.

 

Cavallotto, Stefano. "'Heiligentexte,' 'devozione' ai santi e riforma liturgica nelle Chiese protestanti (1522-1552)." Hagiographica 8 (2001): 233-56.

 

Collins, David J. Reforming Saints: Saints' Lives and Their Authors in Germany, 1470-1530. Oxford Studies in Historical Theology. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008.

 

De Maio, Romeo. “L’ideale eroico nei processi di canonizzazione della controriforma.”  Ricerche di storia sociale e religiosa 2 (1972):  139-60.

 

Duffy, Eamon.  The Stripping of the Altars: Traditional Religion in England, c. 1400-c.1580.  New Haven: Yale University Press, 1992.

 

Dunn, E. Catharine.  The Gallican Saint’s Life and the Late Roman Dramatic Tradition. Washington, DC:  Catholic University of America Press, 1989.

 

Greer, Alan, and Jodi Bilinkoff, eds. Colonial Saints:  Discovering the Holy in the Americas, 1500-1800.  New York: Routledge, 2003.

 

Gregory, Brad F.  Salvation at Stake:  Christian Martyrdom in Early Modern Europe.  Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1999.

 

Guidi, R. L.  “Questioni di storiografia agiografica nel Quattrocento.”  Benedictina 34 (1987): 167-252.

 

Heming, Carol Piper. Protestants and the Cult of the Saints in German-Speaking Europe: 1517-1531. Kirksville: Truman State University Press, 2003.

 

Kolb, Robert.  “Festivals of the Saints in Late Reformation Lutheran Preaching.”  Historian 52 (1990): 613-26.

 

Kolb, Robert.  For All the Saints:  Changing Perceptions of Martyrdom and Sainthood in the Lutheran Church.  Macon:  Mercer University Press, 1987.                     

 

Legenda Aurea”:  Sept siècles de diffusion:  Actes du colloque international sur la “Legenda Aurea”:  Texte latin et branches vernaculaires à l’Université du Québec à Montréal, 11-12 mai 1983, edited by Brenda Dunn-Lardeau.  Montréal:  Editions Bellarmin, 1986. 

 

Leonardi, Claudio.  “Intellectuals and Hagiography in the Fourteenth Century.”  Intellectuals and Writers in Fourteenth Century Europe.  The J. A. W. Bennett Memorial Lectures, Perugia, 1984.   Tübinger Beiträge zur Anglistik 7.  Cambridge:  D.S. Brewer, 1987.  Pp. 7-21.

 

Lupton, Julia. Afterlives of the Saints: Hagiography, Typology, and Renaissance Literature. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1996.

          

McManamon, John M.  “Pier Paolo Vergerio (the Elder) and the Beginnings of the Humanist Cult of Jerome.” Catholic Historical Review 71 (1985): 353-71.

 

Mayer, Thomas F. “Reginald Pole in Paolo Giovio’s Descriptio:  A Strategy for Reconversion.” Sixteenth Century Journal 16 (1985): 431-50.

 

Meissner, W. W.  “Psychoanalytic Hagiography: The Case of Ignatius Loyola.” Theological Studies 52 (1991): 3-33.

 

Prosperi, Adriano, “Madonne di città e Madonne di campagna.  Per un inchiesta sulle dinamiche del sacro nell’Italia post-tridentina.” In Culto dei santi, istituzioni e classi sociali in éta preindustriale, edited by Sofia Boesch Gajano e Lucia Sebastiani.  L’Aquila: L. U. Japadre Editore, 1984.  Pp. 615-47.       

 

Reblin, Klaus. Freund und Feind: Franziskus von Assisi im Spiegel der protestantischen Theologiegeschichte.  Kirche und Konfession 27.  Göttingen:  Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1988.

 

Rhodes, J. T.  “English Books of Martyrs and Saints of the Late Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Century.” Recusant History 22 (1994):  7-25.

 

Rice, Eugene F., Jr.  Saint Jerome in the Renaissance.  Baltimore:  Johns Hopkins University Press, 1988.

 

Ryan, Salvador.  “Steadfast Saints or Malleable Models?  Seventeenth-Century Irish Hagiography Revisited.” Catholic Historical Review 91 (2005): 251-77.

 

Sallmann, Jean-Michel.  “La sainteté mystique féminine à Naples au tournant des XVIe et XVIIe siècles.”  In Culto dei santi, istituzioni e classi sociali in éta preindustriale, edited by Sofia Boesch Gajano and Lucia Sebastiani.  L’Aquila / Roma:  L.U. Japadre Editore, 1984.  Pp. 615-47.

                                             

Soergel, Philip M. “The Image of Saints in the Bavarian Counter Reformation.” The Historian 53 (1991): 223-40.

 

Suire, Eric. La sainteté française de la Réforme catholique (XVIe-XVIIe) d’après les texts hagiographiques et les procés de canonizations, Identités religieuses. Pessac:  Presses universitaires de Bordeaux, 2001.

 

Symonds, Richard.  Alternative Saints: The Post-Reformation British People Commemorated by the Church of England. New York: Saint Martin’s Press, 1989.

 

Watt, Tessa.  Cheap Print and Popular Piety: 1550-1640.  Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History.  New York: Cambridge University Press, 1991.

 

Weiss, James Michael.  “Hagiography by German Humanists, 1483-1516.”  The Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies 15 (1985): 299-316.

 

Weiss, James Michael.   “Luther and His Colleagues on the Lives of the Saints.” Harvard Library Bulletin 33 (1985): 174-95.

 

White, Helen Constance. Tudor Books of Saints and Martyrs. Madison:  University of Wisconsin Press, 1963.