Recent books on Christian hagiography from Late Antiquity to Early Modern Europe. Created 2005.10.19.
Anthologies
Thomas Head, editor, Medieval hagiography: an anthology. New York: Garland Pub., 2000. Includes a useful guide to recent literature.
Mary-Ann Stouck, editor, Medieval saints: a reader. Peterborough: Broadview Press, 1999. Contain selections from fifty works.
Thomas F.X. Noble and Thomas Head, editors, Soldiers of Christ: saints and saints lives from late antiquity and the early Middle ages. University Park, Pa.: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1995.
Translations
Sheila Delany, translator, A Legend of Holy Women: Osbern Bokenham Legends of Holy Women. Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 1992. See also Delany’s
Jo Ann McNamara and John E. Halborg with Gordon Whatley, editors and translators, Sainted women of the Dark Ages. Durham [NC]: Duke University Press, c1992.
Pamela Sheingorn, translator, The book of Sainte Foy. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1995.
Jacobus de Voragine, The Golden Legend: Readings on the Saints. William Granger Ryan, translator. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993. 2 volumes.
Raymond Van Dam, Saints and their miracles in late antique Gaul. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, c1993.
Saints, Society, and History
Peter Brown, The cult of the saints: its rise and function in Latin Christianity. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1981.
Peter Brown, Society and the holy in late antiquity. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1982.
Michel de Certeau, The writing of history. Tom Conley, translator. New York: Columbia University Press, 1988. Chapter 7, “A Variant: Hagio-Graphic Edification.”
Jacques Dubois and Jean-Loup Lemaitre, Sources & méthodes de l'hagiographie médiévale. Paris: Editions du Cerf, 1993. An introduction to (predominantly French) research about hagiography.
Patrick J. Geary, Living with the dead in the Middle Ages. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1994. Chapter One, “Saints, Scholars, and Society: the Elusive Goal,” prescribes an approach to the study of saints and writings about saints.
Aron Gurevich, Medieval popular culture: problems of belief and perception. translated by János M. Bak and Paul A. Hollingsworth, translators. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1988. See Chapter 2, “Peasants and Saints.”
James Howard-Johnston and Paul Antony Hayward, editors. The Cult of saints in late antiquity and the Middle Ages: essays on the contribution of Peter Brown. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.
Richard Kieckhefer, Unquiet souls: fourteenth-century saints and their religious milieu. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1984.
Aviad M. Kleinberg, Prophets in their own country: living saints and the making of sainthood in the later middle ages. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992.
Judith Perkins, The suffering self: pain and narrative representation in early Christianity. London ; New York: Routledge, 1994.
Guy Philippart, editor, Hagiographies: histoire internationale de la littérature hagiographique latine et vernaculaire en Occident des origines à 1550 = international history of Latin and vernacular hagiographical literature in the West from its origins to 1550. Brepols: Turnhout, 1994-. An ongoing series of essays in English, French, German, and Italian.
Alan Thacker and Richard Sharpe, editors. Local saints and local churches in the early medieval West. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.
Augustine Thompson, Cities of God: The Religion of the Italian Communes, 1125-1325. University Park, Pa.: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2005. See especially Chapter 5, “Holy Persons and Holy Places”.
André Vauchez, Sainthood in the later Middle Ages. Jean Birrell, translator. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996.
Donald Weinstein, Rudolph M. Bell, Saints & society: the two worlds of western Christendom, 1000-1700. London and Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1982.
Stephen Wilson, Saints and their cults: studies in religious sociology, folklore and history. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1984. Contains a useful annotated bibliography.
Visual Culture
Barbara Abou-El-Haj, The medieval cult of saints: formations and transformations. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997.
Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski and Timea Szell, editors. Images of sainthood in medieval Europe. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1991.
Joanna Cannon and André Vauchez, Margherita of Cortona and the Lorenzetti: Sienese art and the cult of a holy woman in medieval Tuscany. University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, 1999.
John Crook, The architectural setting of the cult of saints in the early Christian West, c.300-1200. Oxford: Clarendon Press ; New York: Oxford University, 2000.
David Freedberg, The power of images: studies in the history and theory of response. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1989.
Cynthia Hahn, Portrayed on the heart: narrative effect in pictorial lives of saints from the tenth through the thirteenth century. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001.
Jeffrey F. Hamburger, The visual and the visionary: art and female spirituality in late medieval Germany. New York: Zone Books ; Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1998.
Jeffrey F. Hamburger, Nuns as artists: the visual culture of a medieval convent. Berkeley: University of California Press, c1997.
Relics
Patrick J. Geary, Furta sacra: thefts of relics in the central Middle Ages. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, c1978.
Nicholas Vincent, The Holy Blood: King Henry III and the Westminster blood relic. Cambridge, UK ; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001.
Michael McCormick, Origins of the European economy: communications and commerce A.D. 300-900. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001.
Women and Gender
Rudolph M. Bell, Holy anorexia. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1985.
Caroline Walker Bynum, Holy feast and holy fast: the religious significance of food to medieval women. Berkeley: University of California Press, c1987.
Caroline Walker Bynum, Fragmentation and redemption: essays on gender and the human body in Medieval religion. New York: Zone Books, 1991.
Catherine M. Mooney, editor, Gendered voices: medieval saints and their interpreters. Philadelphia, Pa.: University of Pennsylvania Press, c1999.
Jane Tibbetts Schulenburg, Forgetful of their sex: female sanctity and society, ca. 500-1100. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998.
Sheila Delany, Impolitic bodies: poetry, saints, and society in fifteenth-century England: the work of Osbern Bokenham. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.
Lynda L. Coon, Sacred fictions: holy women and hagiography in late antiquity. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1997 .
Rosalind C. Love, translator, Goscelin of Saint-Bertin: the hagiography of the female saints of Ely. Oxford: Clarendon ; Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004.
Visions and Miracles
Robert Bartlett, The hanged man: a story of miracle, memory, and colonialism in the Middle Ages. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2004.
William A. Christian, Jr., Apparitions in late Medieval and Renaissance Spain. by Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1981.
William A. Christian, Jr., Visionaries: the Spanish Republic and the reign of Christ. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996.
Michael E. Goodich, Violence and miracle in the fourteenth century: private grief and public salvation. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995.
Kathleen Ashley & Pamela Sheingorn, Writing faith: text, sign, and history in the miracles of Sainte Foy. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999.
Pierre-André Sigal, L'homme et le miracle dans la France médiévale, XIe-XIIe siècle. Paris: Cerf, 1985.
