LIST #2:  EARLY CHRISTIANS AND WARFARE

Bibliography [not for review]

Hunter, David G. “A Decade of Research on Early Christians and Military Service.” Religious Studies Review 18 (1992): 87-94.

Woods, David.  “The Military Martyrs.”  Web site  includes a list of military martyrs and good scholarly references for many, but the site was last updated in 2005.

Primary Sources:

Acts of Maximilianus, Marcellus, and Julius.  Edited and Translated by Herbert Musurillo, in The Acts of the Christian Martyrs, Oxford Early Christian Texts.  Oxford:  Clarendon Press, 1972 (pp. 244-49, 250-59, 260-65). Also read Peter Brock, “Why Did St. Maximillian Refuse to Serve in the Roman Army?”  Journal of Ecclesiastical History 45 (1994): 195-209.

Augustine.  The Political Writings of St. Augustine.  Edited by Henry Paolucci.  Chicago:  Henry Regnery Company, 1962.  Pp. 1-240.

Constantius of Lyons.  Life of Germanus of Auxerre. Translated by F. R. Hoare, in The Western Fathers.  New York:  Harper Torchbooks, 1965. Pp. 282-320.

Constantius of Lyons.  Life of Germanus of Auxerre. Translated by F. R. Hoare, in Soldiers of Christ:  Saints and Saints’ Lives from Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages.  Edited by Thomas F. X. Noble and Thomas Head.  University Park, PA:  The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1995.  Pp. xix-xxvii and 75-106.

Sulpicius Severus. Life of Martin of Tours.  Translated by F. R. Hoare, in The Western Fathers.  New York:  Harper Torchbooks, 1965.  Pp. 1-144.

Sulpicius Severus. Life of Martin of Tours. Translated by F. R. Hoare, partially repr. in Soldiers of Christ: Saints and Saints’ Lives from Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages.  Edited by Thomas F. X. Noble and Thomas Head.  University Park, PA:  The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1995.  Pp. xix-xxvi and 1-29.

Sulpicius Severus. Life of Martin of Tours. Translated by Alexander Roberts, partially reprinted in Medieval Saints:  A Reader.  Edited by Mary Ann Stouck.  Peterborough OT:  Broadview Press, 1999.  Pp. 137-66.

Tertullian, The Chaplet (De Corona).  At http://www.newadvent.org/fathers/0304.htm .  See also http://www.prca.org/books/portraits/tertull.htm

Secondary: 

Re Augustine.  Read both S. Hartigan, “St. Augustine on War and Killing:  The Problem of the Innocent.”  Journal of the History of Ideas 27 (1966): 195-204; and Robert A. Markus, “St. Augustine’s Views on the Just War.” In The Church and War:  Papers Read at the ... Ecclesiastical History Society.  Studies in Church History 20.  Oxford:  Basil Blackwell, 1983.  Pp. 1-14.  

Autour de saint Maurice: Actes du colloque “Politique, société,et construction identitaire: Autour de saint Maurice” 29 septembre – 2 octobre 2009 Besançon (France)—Saint-Maurice (Suisse). Edited by Nicole Brocard, Françoise Vannotti, and Anne Wagner. Saint–Maurice: Abbaye de Saint-Maurice, 2012.

Bachrach, David S. Religion and the Conduct of War c.300-c.1215. Woodbridge, UK: Boydell Press, 2003.

Bainton, Roland H.  Christian Attitudes toward Peace and War: A Historical Survey.  New York:  Abingdon Press, 1960.

Cadoux, Cecil John. Christian Pacifism Re-Examined.  1940, repr. With a new introduction by John M/ Swomley, Jr.   New York:  Garland Publishing, 1972. 

Cadoux, Cecil John. The Early Church and the World:  A History of the Christian Attitude to Pagan Society and the State Down to the Time of Constantinus.  Edinburgh:  T & T Clark, 1925.

Cadoux, Cecil John. The Early Christian Attitude to War.  1919, rpt. New York:  The Seabury Press, 1982. 

Re Carolingians:  Michael McCormick.  “The Liturgy of War in the Early Middle Ages:  Crisis, Litanies, and the Carolingian Monarchy.” Viator 15 (1984): 1-23; Janet. L. Nelson, “Military Service in the Ninth Century:  A Contemporary Comparative View?” In The Church and War:  Papers Read at the ... Ecclesiastical History Society.  Studies in Church History 20.  Oxford:  Basil Blackwell, 1983.  Pp.15-30; and Friedrich E. Prinz, “King, Clergy, and War at the Time of the Carolingians.”  In Saints, Scholars, and Heroes:  Studies in Medieval Culture in Honour of Charles W. Jones.  2 vols.  Edited by Margot H. King and Wesley M. Stevens.  Collegeville, MN:  St. John’s Abbey and University, 1979.  2:301-29.

Dawson, Doyne.  The Origins of Western Warfare:  Militarism and Morality in the Ancient World.  Boulder: Westview Press, 1996.

von Harnack, Adolf.  ‘Militia Christi’: The Christian Religion and the Military in the First Three Centuries.  Translated by David McInnes Gracie.  Philadelphia:  Fortress Press, 1981.

Helgeland, John.  Christians and the Military: The Early Experience.  Philadelphia:  Fortress Press, 1985.

Iosif, Despina. Early Christian Attitudes towards War, Violence, and Military Service.  Gorgias Studies in Classical and Late Antiquity.  Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2013.

Kalantzis, George. Caesar and the Lamb: Early Christian Attitudes on War and Military Service. Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2013.

McMullen, Ramsey.  Soldier and Civilian in the Later Roman Empire.  Cambridge, MA:  Harvard University Press, 1967.

Näf, Beat. Städte und ihre Märtyrer. Der Kult der Thebäischen Legion. Paradosis 51. Fribourg: Academic Press, 2011.

Russell, Frederick H.  The Just War in the Middle Ages.  Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought, Ser. 3, 8. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1975. Pp. 1-39; and Russell, “Love and Hate in Medieval Warfare:  The Contribution of St. Augustine.”  Nottingham Medieval Studies 31 (1987): 108-24. 

Secrétan, Henri F.  “Le christianisme de premiers siècles et le service militaire.” Revue de théologie et de philosophie ns 2 (1914): 345-65.

Shean, John F. Soldiering for God: Christianity and the Roman Army. The History of Warfare 61. Leiden: Brill, 2010.

Sider, Ronald J. The Early Church on Killing: A Comprehensive Sourcebook on War, Abortion, and Capital Punishment.  Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2012.