List #4: Episcopal Sanctity: Lives of Bishops

Primary Sources, Early Medieval

 

[Audoenus, Leudegar, and Praejectus]  Late Merovingian France:  History and Hagiography, 640-720, edited by Paul Fouracre and Richard A. Gerberding.  Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1996.

 

[Aethelwold]  Wulfstan of Winchester:  The Life of St. Aethelwold,  edited by Michael Lapidge and Michael Winterbottom.  Oxford:  Cambridge University Press, 1991.

 

[Cuthbert]  Two Lives of Saint Cuthbert,  translated by Bertram Colgrave.  1940, rpt. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985.

 

[Erkenwald]  The Saint of London:  The Life and Miracles of St. Erkenwald:  Text and Translation, edited and translated by E. Gordon Whatley.  Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies 58.  Binghamton, NY:  Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, 1989.

                                                          

[Gregory I]  The Earliest Life of Gregory the Great, by an Anonymous Monk of Whitby, translated by Bertram Colgrave.  Lawrence:  University of Kansas Press, 1968.

 

[Martin]  Severus, Sulpicius:  Vie de Saint Martin.  Edited by Jacques Fontaine.  3 vols.  Sources Chrétiennes 133-135.  Paris:  Cerf, 1967.

 

[Martin et al.:  Martin, Augustine, Germanus].  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:  Pennsylvania State University Press, 1995.  Pp. 1-106.

 

[Martin et al.]  Sulpicius Severus et al., The Western Fathers:  Being the Lives of Martin of Tours, Ambrose, Augustine of Hippo, Honoratus of Arles and Germanus of Auxerre, translated by F.R. Hoare.  1954, rpt. New York:  Harper Torchbook, 1965.

 

[Popes]  The Book of the Pontiffs (Liber Pontificalis).  The Ancient Biographies of the First Ninety Roman Bishops to AD 715, translated by Raymond Davis.  Translated Texts for Historians Latin Series 5.  Liverpool:  Liverpool University Press, 1989.

 

[Popes]  The Book of the Eighth-Century Popes (Liber Pontificalis).  The Ancient Biographies of Nine Popes from AD 715 to AD 817, translated by Raymond Davis.  Translated Texts for Historians Latin Series 13.  Liverpool:  Liverpool University Press, 1989.

            

[Severinus].  Eugippius.  The Life of Saint Severin, translated by Ludwig Bieler.  The Fathers of the Church 55.  Washington, DC:  Catholic University of America Press, 1965.

 

[Wilfrid]  The Life of Bishop Wilfrid by Eddius Stephanus, translated by Bertram Colgrave. 1927, rpt. Cambridge, England:  Cambridge University Press, 1985.

 

William, of Malmesbury. Gesta Pontificum Anglorum = The History of the English Bishops.  Vol. 1: Text and Translation, edited and translated by Michael Winterbottom. Oxford Medieval Texts.  Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2007.

 

 

Primary Sources, High Medieval

 

[Anselm]  The Life of St. Anselm, Archbishop of Canterbury, by Eadmer, edited and translated by Richard W. Southern.  London:  Thomas Nelson and Sons Ltd., 1962.  Note that Southern also wrote both a companion volume and a postscript:  Saint Anselm and His Biographer: A Study of Monastic Life and Thought, 1059-c.1130. (Cambridge:  Cambridge University Press, 1963); then Saint Anselm:  A Portrait in a Landscape C(ambridge:  Cambridge University Press, 1990). 

  

[Edmund of Abingdon]  The Life of St. Edmund by Matthew Paris, edited and translated by C. H. Lawrence.  Oxford:  Alan Sutton Publishing Limited, 1996.   Note that Lawrence also wrote both a companion volume:  St. Edmund of Abingdon:  A Study in Hagiography and History (Oxford:  Clarendon Press, 1960).

 

[Hugh of Lincoln]  Adam of Eynsham: The Life of St. Hugh of Lincoln, edited by Decima L. Douie and Hugh Farmer. 2 vols.  Medieval Texts.  London:  Thomas Nelson and Sons, 1961-62.

 

[Malachy]  Bernard of Clairvaux.  The Life and Death of Saint Malachy the Irishman, translated by Robert T. Meyer.  Cistercian Fathers Series 10.  Kalamazoo:  Cistercian Publications, 1978.

 

[Wulfstan]  “The Life of Bishop Wulfstan of Worcester.”  In Three lives of the Last Englishmen, translated by Michael Swanton.  Garland Library of Medieval Literature, series B, 10.  New York:  Garland, 1984.  Pp. 89-148.

 

 

 

Secondary Sources, Early Medieval

                                         

Bishop, Jane. “Bishops as Marital Advisors in the Ninth Century.” In Women of the Medieval World: Essays in Honor of John H. Mundy, edited by Julius Kirschner and Suzanne Wemple.  Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1985.  Pp. 53-84.                    

 

Brennan, Brian.  “The Image of the Merovingian Bishop in the Poetry of Venantius Fortunatus.” Journal of Medieval History 18 (1992): 115-39.

 

Canetti, Luigi. Gloriosa Civitas:  Culto dei santi e società cittadina a Piacenza nel Medioevo.  Cristianesimo antico e medievale 4.  Bologna: Pàtron Editore, 1993.

 

Coates, Simon. “The Bishop as Pastor and Solitary: Bede and the Spiritual Authority of the Monk-Bishop.”  Journal of Ecclesiastical History 47 (1996):  33-48.

 

Coates, Simon.  “The Construction of Episcopal Sanctity in Early Anglo-Saxon England.” Historical Research 71 (1998) 1-13.

 

Bishop Aethelwold:  His Career and Influence, edited by Barbara York.  Wolfboro NH:  Boydell, 1988.

 

Dales, Douglas.  Dunstan Saint and Statesman.  Cambridge:  Lutterworth Press, 1988.  

 

Danielson, Sigrid., and Evan A. Gatti, eds. Envisioning the Bishop: Images and the Episcopacy in the Middle Ages. Turnhout: Brepols, 2014.                                      

 

Duckett, Eleanor Shipley.  Saint Dunstan of Canterbury:  A Study of Monastic Reform in the Tenth Century.  New York:  W. W. Norton and Company, Inc., 1955.

 

L’Évêque dans la cité du IVe au Ve siècle.  Image et autorité.  Actes de la table ronde organisée par l’Instituto patristico Augustinianum et l’École française de Rome (Rome, Ier et 2 déc. 1995).  Edited by Éric Rebillard et Claire Sotinel.  Colloque de  l’ÉFR 248.  Rome: ÉFR, 1998.

 

Farmer, Sharon.  Communities of Saint Martin.  Legend and Ritual in Medieval Tours.  Ithaca:  Cornell University Press, 1991.

 

Golinelli, Paolo.  "Antichi e nuovi culti cittadini al sorgerre dei Comuni del nord-Italia.”  Hagiographica 1 (1994): 159-80.

 

Kirby, D. P., ed.  Bishop Saint Wilfrid at Hexham.  Newcastle-on-Tyne: Oriel Press, Ltd., 1974.

 

Lynch, Charles H.  Saint Braulio, Bishop of Saragossa (631-51):  His Life and Writings.  The Catholic University of America Studies in Medieval History n.s. 2.  Washington, DC:  Catholic University of America Press, 1938.

      

Johnson-South, Ted.  “Changing Images of Sainthood:  St. Cuthbert in the Historia de Sancto Cuthberto.”  In Saints:  Studies in Hagiography, edited by Sandro Sticca.  Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies 141.  Binghamton, NY:  Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, 1996.  Pp. 81-94.   

 

Orselli, Alba Maria. "I santi vescovi."  In Forme e modelli della santità in Occidente dal tardo antico al medioevo, edited by Massimiliano Bassetti, Antonella Degl'Innocenti, and Enrico Menestò. Spoleto: CISAM, 2012.  Pp. 35-56.             

 

Orselli, Alba Maria.  L’idea et il culto del santo patrono cittadino nella letteratura latina cristiana.  Bologna: Zanichelli, 1965.                      

    

Picard, Jean-Charles.  Le souvenir des évêques.  Sépultures, listes épiscopales et culte des évêques en Italie du Nord, des origines au Xe siècle.  Bibliothèque des Écoles françaises d’Athènes et de Rome 208.  Rome: ÉFR, 1988.

 

Pizarro, Joaquín Martínez.  Writing Ravenna:  The Liber Pontificalis of Andrew Agnellus.  Ann Arbor:  University of Michigan Press, 1995.

 

Rapp, Claudia.  Holy Bishops in Late Antiquity:  The Nature of Christian Leadership in an Age of Transition.  Transformation of the Classical Heritage 37.  Berkeley:  University of California Press, 2005.

 

Richards, Jeffrey.  Consul of God: The Life and Times of Gregory the Great.  London:  Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1980.

 

Rousseau, Philip.  Basil of Caesarea.  Transformation of the Classical Heritage 20.  Berkeley:  University of California Press, 1995.

 

Sot, Michel.  Gesta Episcoporum, Gesta Abbatum.  Typologie des sources du moyen âge occidental 37.  Turnhout:  Brepols, 1981.

 

Sot, Michel.  “Rhetorique et technique dans les préfaces des Gesta Episcoporum (IX - XIIe s.).”  Cahiers de civilisation médiévale 28 (1985): 181-200.

                         

Stancliffe, Clare.  Saint Martin and His Hagiographer:  History and Miracle in Sulpicius Severus.  Oxford: Clarendon, 1983.

                                                         

Straw, Carole Ellen.  Gregory the Great: Perfection in Imperfection.  Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988.

 

Laurent Terrade, “Hiérarchie des perfections, service et justification: L’image de l’évêque dans l’hagiographie latine des Ve-VIIe siècles.”  In Hiérarchies et services au Moyen Âge:  Séminaire Sociétés, Idéologies et Croyances au Moyen Âge, edited by Claude Carozzi and Hugutte Taviani-Carozzi.  Aix-en-Provence: Université de Provence, 2001.  Pp. 241-86.  

 

Van Dam, Raymond.  “Images of Saint Martin in Late Roman and Early Merovingian Gaul.”  Viator 19 (1988): 1-17.

 

Van Dam, Raymond.   Saints and Their Miracles in Antique Gaul.  Princeton:  Princeton University Press, 1993.

 

 

 

Secondary Sources, High Medieval

 

Barlow, Frank.  Thomas Becket.  Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986.

 

Brentano, Robert.  “Bishops and Saints.”  In Two Churches:  England and Italy in the Thirteenth Century.  1968, rpt. Berkeley:  University of California Press, 1988.  Pp. 174-237 and 371-79.

 

Coué, Stephanie.  Hagiographie im Kontext:  Schreibanlass und Funktion von Bischofsviten aus den 11. und von Anfang des 12. Jahrhundert.  Arbeiten zur Frühmittelalterforschung 24.  Berlin:  Walter de Gruyter, 1997.

 

Golinelli, Paolo.  “Istituzioni cittadine e culti episcopali in area matildica avanti il sorgere dei Comuni.”  In Culto dei santi, istituzioni e classi sociali in éta preindustriale, edited by Sofia Boesch Gajano e Lucia Sebastiani.  L’Aquila / Roma:  L.U. Japadre Editore, 1984.  Pp. 141-97.

 

Jaeger, C. Stephen.  “The Courtier Bishop.”  In The Origins of Courtliness:  Civilizing Trends and the Formation of Courtly Ideals, 923-1210.  Philadelphia:  University of Pennsylvania Press, 1985.  Pp. 17-48.

 

Jaeger, C. Stephen. “The Courtier Bishop in Vitae from the Tenth to the Twelfth Century.” Speculum 58 (1983):  291-325.   

   

Kallfelz, Hatto.  Lebenbeschreibungen einiger Bischöfe des 10.- 12. Jahrhunderts.  Ausgewählte Quellen zur deutschen Geschichte des Mittelalters 22.  Darmstadt:  Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 1973.

 

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.

 

Knowles, David.  Thomas Becket.  Stanford CA:  Stanford University Press, 1971.

 

Lawrence, C. H.  St. Edmund of Abingdon: A Study in Hagiography and History.  Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1960.

 

Mason, Emma.  Saint Wulfstan of Worcester, c. 1008-95.  Oxford:  Basil Blackwell, 1990.

 

Papi, Anna Benevenuti.  Pastori di Popolo:  Storie e leggende di vescovi e di città nell’Italia Medievale.  Politica e storia 7.  Florence:  Arnaud Editore, 1988.

 

Rampolla, Mary Lynn.  “’A Mirror of Sanctity’:  Madness as Metaphor in the Vita Wulfstani.”  In Saints:  Studies in Hagiography, edited by Sandro Sticca.  Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies 141.  Binghamton, NY:  Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, 1996.  Pp. 95-114.

 

Reuter, Timothy.  “Episcopi cum Sua Militia:  The Prelate as Warrior in the Early Stauffer Era.”  In Warriors and Churchmen in the High Middle Ages:  Essays Presented to Karl Leyser, edited by Reuter. Rio Grande, Ohio:  Hambledon Press, 1992.  Pp. 79-94

 

St. Thomas Cantilupe, Bishop of Hereford:  Essays in His Honor, edited by Meryl Jancey.  Hereford:  Friends of Hereford Cathedral, 1982.

 

Tschan, Francis J.  St. Berward of Hildesheim. 3 vols.  Publications in Medieval Studies 6.  Notre Dame:  University of Notre Dame, 1942-52.

 

Vauchez, André.  Sainthood in the Later Middle Ages, translated by Jean Birrell.  New York:  Cambridge University Press, 1997. [Concentrate on his findings on episcopal sanctity.]