Studies:
Hagiography, Liturgy, Function
For a list of saints and church
feasts presented in the Old English Martyrology, see the Index
of Reference Nos., Saints, Feasts, and Manuscript Contents and the Alphabetical
Index of Persons Named in the Old English Martyrology.
Works of Reference and
Databases
- Kotzor, G., ed., Das altenglische Martyrologium,
2 vols., Abhandlungen der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, phil.-hist.
Kl., ns 88.1-2 (Munich, 1981), II, 277-375 [explanatory notes accompanying
Kotzor's edition, with some biographical and hagiographical information]
- Whatley, E. G., ‘Acta Sanctorum', Sources
of Anglo-Saxon Literary Culture: Volume 1, ed. F. M. Biggs, T. D. Hill
and P. E. Szarmach (Kalamazoo, 2001) [extensive of hagiographical texts
used or produced in Anglo-Saxon England, arranged alphabetically under saints'
names. Gives brief sketches of the individual entries of the Old English
Martyrology and their source texts]
- Fontes Anglo-Saxonici
database [lists all sources of the Old English Martyrology
identified to date, with bibliographies. Allows searches for individual
saints, source-texts, source authors, text passages, source passages. On
entering the database, choose 'Search Database', then 'Anglo-Saxon Author',
'ANON (OE Martyrology'), and 'Submit Query'.]
Studies
- Tupper, F., Jr., ‘Anglo-Saxon Dæg-Mæl',
Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 10 (1895),
111-241 [on time measurement in the Old English Martyrology,
passim]
- Wilson, H. A., ‘English Mass-Books in
the Ninth Century', Journal of Theological Studies 3 (1901-2),
429-33 [on the sacramentaries used by the martyrologist]
- Chapman, J., Notes on the Early History
of the Vulgate Gospels (Oxford, 1908), pp. 146-9 [on the sacramentaries
used by the martyrologist]
- Frere, W. H., Studies in Early Roman
Liturgy, Alcuin Club Collections 28, ? vols (London, 1930-?), I, 45-7
[on sacramentaries, Capuan saints]
- Siffrin, P., 'Das Walderdorffer Kalenderfragment
saec. viii und die Berliner Blätter eines Sakramentars aus
Regensburg', Ephemerides Liturgicae 47 (1933), 201-24
- Henel, H., ‘Altenglischer Mönchsaberglaube',
Englische Studien 69 (1934-5), 329-49, at 347-8 [edits and discusses
a brief entry found in British Library, Harley 3271 (s. xi1), which represents
an exact quotation of parts of the Old English Martyrology sections
on The Beginning of Summer (83a) and The Beginning of Winter (221a).
See also Manuscripts]
- Levison, W., England and the Continent
in the Eighth Century (Oxford, 1946), pp. 6 n. 4 and 278-9 [on the
Frankish saints and St Wilfrid]
- Sisam, K., Studies in the History of
Old English Literature (Oxford, 1953), pp. 65-96 [on 73 (St Christopher)]
- Grosjean, P., ‘Un fragment d'obituaire
Anglo-Saxon du viiie siècle naguère conservé à
Munich', Analecta Bollandiana 79 (1961), 320-45, at 334-5 [comparison
with the fragmentary calendar preserved in Munich, Hauptstaatsarchiv, Raritätenselekt
108 (s. viii), on which see also E. A. Lowe, Codices Latini Antiquiores
IX, no. 1236]
- Willis, G. G., ‘Early English Liturgy
from Augustine to Alcuin', in his Further Essays in Early Roman Liturgy,
Alcuin Club Collections 50 (London, 1968), pp. 189-243, at 217 [on the sacramentaries
used by the Martyrologist]
- Grant, R. J. S., ‘MS. C.C.C.C. 41, with
Special Regard to the B-Version of the Old English Bede' (diss., Cambridge,
1971), pp. 34-9
- Godden, M. R., ‘Old English Composite
Homilies from Winchester', Anglo-Saxon England 4 (1975), 57-65
[on borrowings from the Old English Martyrology in composite homilies]
- Rollason, D. W., ‘Lists of Saints' Resting-places
in Anglo-Saxon England', Anglo-Saxon England 7 (1978), 61-93 [parallels
between the Old English Martyrology and the eleventh-century list
of resting-places of the saints, the Secgan be þam Godes sanctum
þe on Engla lande ærost reston]
- Godden, M., 'Ælfric and the Vernacular
Prose Tradition', The Old English Homily and its Backgrounds, ed.
P. E. Szarmach and B. F. Huppé (Albany NY, 1978), pp. 99-117 at 105
[on whether Ælfric knew or used the Old English Martyrology]
- Nitzsche, J., 'The Anglo-Saxon Woman as Hero:
The Chaste Queen and the Masculine Woman Saint', Allegorica 5.2
(1980), 139-48 [some comments on female saints]
- Kotzor, G., ed., Das altenglische Martyrologium,
2 vols., Abhandlungen der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, phil.-hist.
Kl., ns 88.1-2 (Munich, 1981), I, 233-43 [on the function of the Old
English Martyrology and other martyrologies]
- Bzdyl, D. G., 'Prayer in Old English Narratives',
Medium Aevum 51 (1982), 135-51 [on the prayers of Justus, Alexandria
and Erasmus]
- Clayton, M., ‘The Cult of the Virgin
Mary in Anglo-Saxon England with Special Reference to the Vernacular Texts'
(diss., Oxford, 1983), pp. 155-66 [on the function of the text; not entirely
superseded by her later publications and worth consulting independently]
- Clayton, M., 'Feasts of the Virgin in the Liturgy of the Anglo-Saxon Church', Anglo-Saxon England 13 (1984), 209-33 [esp. p. 223, on the various feasts of Mary]
- Howe, N., The Old English Catalogue Poems, Anglistica 23 (Copenhagen, 1985), pp. 73-103 [comparison with the Menologium]
- Rollason, D., Saints and Relics in Anglo-Saxon
England (Oxford, 1989), pp. 67-8 [discussion of the sacramentaries
used by the martyrologist]
- Hollis, S., Anglo-Saxon Women and the Church: Sharing a Common Fate (Woodbridge, 1992), pp. 249, 253-4 and 261-2 [comments on 226 Hild]
- Brock, S., ‘The Syriac Background',
Archbishop Theodore: Commemorative Studies on his Life and Influence,
ed. M. Lapidge, Cambridge Studies in Anglo-Saxon England 11 (Cambridge,
1995), pp. 30-53 [on Syriac traditions]
- Hohler, C., ‘Theodore and the Liturgy',
Archbishop Theodore: Commemorative Studies on his Life and Influence,
ed. M. Lapidge, Cambridge Studies in Anglo-Saxon England 11 (Cambridge,
1995), pp. 222-35 [on Cyricus and Julitta, Mary Magdalene, Milus of Susa,
and the Capuan saints]
- Franklin, C. V., ‘Theodore and the Passio
S. Anastasii', Archbishop Theodore: Commemorative Studies on his
Life and Influence, ed. M. Lapidge, Cambridge Studies in Anglo-Saxon
England 11 (Cambridge, 1995), pp. 175-203, at 185-6 [on the selection of saints]
- Cubitt, C., Anglo-Saxon Church Councils
c. 650-c.850 (London, 1995), pp. 138-152 [on the Italian liturgical
sources]
- Godden, M. R., ‘Experiments in Genre:
The Saints' Lives in Ælfric's Catholic Homilies', Holy Men and
Holy Women: Old English Prose Saints' Lives and their Contexts, ed.
P. E. Szarmach (Albany, 1996), pp. 261-87 [on John the Evangelist, Peter
and Paul, Andrew and Gregory]
- Anderson, E. A., 'The Seasons of the Year in Old English', Anglo-Saxon England 26 (1997), 231-63
- Thacker, A., 'In Search of Saints: The English Church and the Cult of Roman Apostles and Martyrs in the Seventh and Eighth Centuries', Early Medieval Rome and the Christian West: Essays in Honour of Donald A. Bullough, ed. J. M. H. Smith, The Medieval Mediterranean 28 (Leiden, 2000), pp. 247-77.
- Lendinara, P., 'Pietro, apostolo, vescovo e santo nella letteratura anglo-sassone', La figura di S. Pietro nelle fonti del Medioevo, ed. L. Lazzari and A. M. Valente Bacci (Louvain-la-Neuve, 2001), pp. 649-84 [contextualises the various entries for Peter, his family, associates and successors]
- Lionarons, J. T., 'From Monster to Martyr: The Old English Legend of Saint Christopher', Marvels, Monsters, and Miracles: Studies in the Medieval and Early Modern Imaginations, ed. T. S. Jones and D. A. Sprunger, Studies in Medieval Culture 42 (Kalamazoo, 2002), pp. 167-82 [brief contextualisation of 73 Christopher]
- Chenard, M., 'Narratives of the Saintly Body in Anglo-Saxon England' (PhD dissertation, University of Notre Dame, 2003), pp. 121-68 [particularly on Mary Magdalen and Pelagia]
- Elliott, W. S., 'Sex and the Single Saint: Physicality in Anglo-Saxon Female Saints' Lives' (PhD dissertation, University of Georgia) [with discussion of various female saints, especially Æthelthryth 110]
- Downey, S., 'Intertextuality in the Lives of St. Guthlac' (PhD dissertation, University of Toronto, 2004), esp. pp. 176-85 [particularly on 63 Guthlac, with discussion of possible liturgical source material for this entry]
- Rauer, C., ‘Usage of the Old English Martyrology’, Foundations of Learning: The Transfer of Encyclopaedic Knowledge in the Early Middle Ages, ed. R. H. Bremmer jr. and K. Dekker, Medievalia Groningana ns 9 (Leuven, 2007), pp. 125-46
- Jones, C. A., 'Old English Words for Relics of the Saints', Constructing a World One Word at a Time: Papers on The Dictionary of Old English Project, ed. M. J. Toswell, Florilegium 26 (2009), 85-129 [on general usage of relic vocabulary in the Old English Martyrology, including specific reference to 176 Marcellus, 69 Rogation Day and 78 Rogation Days]
- Lensing, I., Das altenglische Heiligenleben (Heidelberg, 2010), pp. 68-72 [brief contextualisation]
- Rauer, C., ‘Old English Martyrology’, Christianity and Culture: The English Parish Church, ed. D. Dyas (York, 2010)
- Coz, Y., Rome en Angleterre: L'image de la Rome antique dans l'Angleterre anglo-saxonne du viie siècle à 1066, Bibliothèque d'histoire médiévale 5 (Paris, 2011) [brief description, some references to Roman martyrs, esp. pp. 71-5]
- Pengelley, O., 'Rome in Ninth-Century Anglo-Saxon England' (PhD dissertation, University of Oxford, 2010) [extended reference to Roman martyrs]
- Lee, C., 'Reluctant Appetites: Anglo-Saxon Attitudes towards Fasting', Saints and Scholars: New Perspectives on Anglo-Saxon Literature and Culture in Honour of Hugh Magennis, ed. S. McWilliams (Cambridge, 2012), pp. 164-86 [on Mary Magdalen, Pope Callistus I, Simeon Stylites, Procopius]
- Rauer, C., ‘Direct Speech, Intercession, and Prayer in the Old English Martyrology’, English Studies 93 (2012), 563-71
- Rauer, C., ‘Female Hagiography in the Old English Martyrology’, Writing Women Saints in Anglo-Saxon England, ed. P. E. Szarmach (Toronto, 2013), pp. 13-29
- Stodnick, J., 'Bodies of Land: The Place of Gender in the Old English Martyrology', Writing Women Saints in Anglo-Saxon England, ed. P. E. Szarmach (Toronto, 2013), pp. 30-52
- Rauer, C., ‘Errors and Textual Problems in the Old English Martyrology’, Neophilologus 97 (2013), 147-64
- Clancy, T. O., 'Saints in the Scottish Landscape', Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium 33 (2013), 1-34, at 20-21 [127 Cyricus and Julitta]
- Rauer, C., ed., The Old English Martyrology: Edition, Translation and Commentary, Anglo-Saxon Texts 10 (Cambridge, 2013) [contains historical contextualisation and hagiographical commentaries on individual text section]
- Semper, P., 'Byð se ealda man ceald and snoflig': Stereotypes and Subversions of the Last Stages of the Life Cycle in Old English Texts and Anglo-Saxon Contexts', Medieval Life Cycles: Continuity and Change, ed. I. Cochelin and K. Smyth, International Medieval Research 18 (Turnhout, 2013), 287-318, esp. pp. 302, 304 and 307 [on old age in 207 Luke, 211 Hilarion, 22 Antony the Hermit, 136 Simeon Stylites and 221 Winnoc]
- Watt, D., 'The Earliest Women's Writing? Anglo-Saxon Literary Cultures and Communities', Women's Writing 20 (2013), 537-54 [contains discussion of 226 Hild]
- Billett, J. D., The Divine Office in Anglo-Saxon England 597-c.1000, Henry Bradshaw Society Subsidia 7 (London, 2014), p. 147n [brief remarks on the sacramentaries used by the martyrologist]
- Karasawa, K., ed., The Old English Metrical Calendar (Menologium), Anglo-Saxon Texts 12 (Cambridge, 2015) [extensive and detailed reference to the Old English Martyrology, particularly the calendrical system, the names of the months, Rogation Day 69, Lammas Day 142 and Pope Clement I 228]
- Porck, T., 'Growing Old among the Anglo-Saxons: The Cultural Conceptualisation of Old Age in Early Medieval England' (PhD dissertation, University of Leiden, 2016), esp. pp. 125-45 [on old saints]
- Rauch, S. I., 'Patristic Number Symbolism in Anglo-Saxon England' (PhD dissertation, University College Dublin, 2016), esp. pp. 265-73 [dissertation embargoed until 2021]
- Dresvina, J., A Maid with a Dragon: The Cult of St Margaret of Antioch in Medieval England (Oxford, 2016), pp. 24-5, 208 [on Margaret / Marina]
- Key, J. S., 'Models of Vengeance in Anglo-Saxon and Irish Hagiography', England, Ireland, and the Insular World: Textual and Material Connections in the Early Middle Ages, ed. M. Clayton, A. Jorgensen and J. Mullins, Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies 509 (Tempe, 2017), pp. 137-49 [on a variety of vengeance motifs]
- Milfull, I., and K. Thier, 'Anglo-Saxon Perceptions of the Celtic Peoples', England, Ireland, and the Insular World: Textual and Material Connections in the Early Middle Ages, ed. M. Clayton, A. Jorgensen and J. Mullins, Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies 509 (Tempe, 2017), pp. 199-223 [on terms like Bryten, Hibernia, Bryttas etc.]
- Thomson, S. C., Communal Creativity in the Making of the 'Beowulf' Manuscript: Towards a History of Reception for the Nowell Codex, The Manuscript World 10 (Leiden, 2018), pp. 18-20 [73 Christopher]
- Thomson, S. C., 'The Overlooked Women of the Old English Passio of Saint Christopher', Medievalia et Humanistica 44 (2018), 61-80 [73 Christopher, discussing the various Latin text traditions, but does not refer to Whatley, or Theodore of Tarsus]
- Arthur, C., 'Charms', Liturgies, and Secret Rites in Early Medieval England, Anglo-Saxon Studies 32 (Woodbridge, 2018), pp. 45-9 [on wyrmgaldere]
- Hill, J., 'Childhood in the Lives of Anglo-Saxon Saints', Childhood and Adolescence in Anglo-Saxon Literary Culture, ed. S. Irvine and W. Rudolf (Toronto, 2018), pp. 139-61, at 157 [86 Pancras]
- Irvine, S., 'Foster-Relationships in the Old English Boethius', Childhood and Adolescence in Anglo-Saxon Literary Culture, ed. S. Irvine and W. Rudolf (Toronto, 2018), pp. 202-21, at 206 and 214 [102 Vitus, 122 Marina, 42 Gregory]
- Jacobsen, D., 'The Testimony of Martyr: A Word History of Martyr in Anglo-Saxon England', Studies in Philology 115 (2018), 417-32 [on martyrdom and OE martyr, þrowian, þrowere]
- Palmer, J. T., Early Medieval Hagiography (Leeds, 2018) [concise contextualisation in the hagiographical genre, pp. 55-64]
- Porck, T., Old Age in Early Medieval England: A Cultural History, Anglo-Saxon Studies 33 (Cambridge, 2019) [p. 66 (12 the Magi), p. 82 (53 Adam and Eve), pp. 114-15 (how many old saints included), p. 115 (supporting roles), p. 124 (16, 22 hermits), p. 130 (221 Winnoc), pp. 129-30 (211 Hilarion)]
- Hamilton, S., 'Understanding the Church's Past: Usuard's Martyrology in Tenth- and Eleventh-Century England', Medieval Worlds 10 (2019), 46-60 [comparison with Usuard's Martyrology; historical contextualisation and discussion of text's function in the ninth and eleventh centuries]
- Wragg, S. J., 'The Early Texts of the Cult of Saint Guthlac', English Studies 100 (2019), 253-72 [historical contextualisation of entries 15 and 63, on Guthlac]
- Watt, D., Women, Writing and Religion in England and Beyond, 650-1100 (London, 2020), pp. 27-31 [226 Hild]
- Thacker, A., 'Guthlac and His Life: Felix Shapes the Saint', Guthlac: Crowland's Saint, ed. J. Roberts, and A. Thacker (Donington, 2020), pp. 1-24 [63 Guthlac, 15 Pega]
- Wragg, S., 'Guthlac A and the Cult of Guthlac', Guthlac: Crowland's Saint, ed. J. Roberts, and A. Thacker (Donington, 2020), pp. 214-28 [63 Guthlac]
- Parkes, H., 'Musical Portraits of St Guthlac', Guthlac: Crowland's Saint, ed. J. Roberts, and A. Thacker (Donington, 2020), pp. 277-97, at 285-92 [63 Guthlac, the office of Guthlac in CCCC 198]
- Karkov, C. E., Imagining Anglo-Saxon England: Utopia, Heterotopia, Dystopia (Woodbridge, 2020), pp. 13-3 [73 Christopher]
- Lumley Prior, A., 'Pegeland Revisited: St Pega in the Post-Guthlac Fenland', Guthlac: Crowland's Saint, ed. J. Roberts, and A. Thacker (Donington, 2020), pp. 326-41 [15 Pega]
- Vuille, J., Holy Harlots in Medieval English Religious Literature: Authority, Exemplarity and Femininity, Gender in the Middle Ages 17 (Cambridge, 2021), pp. 19-38 [extensive and detailed discussion of the prostitute saints 210 Pelagia, 133 Mary Magdalene, and 149 Afra]
- Kemhadjian, K. Y., 'The Semantics of Self-Killing in Old English Language, Literature and Culture, c. 750-1150' (PhD dissertation, University of Leeds, 2022) [passim, on suicidal motifs]
- Gallagher, J. J., 'Liturgy and Learning: The Encyclopaedic function of the Old English Martyrology', Religions 13 (2022), 236 [This!]
- Ireland, C. A., The Gaelic Background of Old English Poetry before Bede (Kalamazoo, 2022) [on various saints and political figures with Irish connections: Fursa, Gregory the Great, Guthlac, Oswald, Aidan, Wilfrid, Paulinus, Columba, Cedd, Chad, Hygebald and Adomnán; see Index]
- Anlezark, D., 'Alfred and the East', Ideas of the World in Early Medieval English Literature, ed. M. Atherton, K. Karasawa and F. Leneghan, Studies in Old English Literature 1 (Turnhout, 2022), pp. 43-67 [on 162 Bartholomew and 238 Thomas]
- Thomson, S. C., 'Otherwheres in the Prose Texts of the Nowell Codex: Here and Otherwhere', Ideas of the World in Early Medieval English Literature, ed. M. Atherton, K. Karasawa and F. Leneghan, Studies in Old English Literature 1 (Turnhout, 2022), pp. 103-26 [on 73 Christopher]
- Minaya Gómez, F. J., 'Aesthetic Pleasure and Negative Aesthetic Experience in the Old English Martyrology', Studia Anglica Posnanensia (forthcoming) [covers a wide range of textual examples]
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