List #1: Acts (Acta, Passiones)
of the Martyrs
Early Primary
Sources:
Early Christian Writings: The Apostolic Fathers. Translated by Maxwell Staniforth. Baltimore: Penguin Books, 1968.
The Acts of the
Christian Martyrs.
Edited and Translated by Herbert Musurillo.
Acta Alexandrinorum:
The Acts of the Pagan Martyrs.
Edited and Translated by Herbert Musurillo.
“Second and Third
Century Acts of Apostles.” In
New Testment Apocrypha.
Edited by Wilhelm Schneemelcher.
Translated by R. McL.
Les légendes
grecques des saints militaires.
Edited by Hyppolyte Delehaye.
Gregory of
Source Collections:
English translations of many of the early acts are included in the texts
presented in The Fathers of the Church.
79- vols.
Latin and/or Greek original texts can be found in J.-P. Migne’s Patrologia (ca. 400 vols.), available at TTU on microfiche; and in the Acta Sanctorum (67 vols.), available at TTU on microfilm. Both of these immense source collections were accessible online for free through Documenta Catholica, but recently its postings have been scaled back, possibly because of copyright complications. The Acta Sanctorum is available in a searchable proprietary electronic version produced by Chadwick Healey and now published by Proquest, has an index by Roger Pearse posted online, and may be available in pdf form on various sites.
Secondary Sources:
Altman, Charles.
“Two Types of Opposition and the Structure of Latin Saints’ Lives.”
Medievalia et Humanistica 6
(1975), 1-11.
Barnes, Timothy D.
“Pre-Decian Acta Martyrum.”
Journal of Theological Studies,
19 (1968), 509-31.
Bisbee, Gary A.
Pre-Decian Acts of Martyrs and Commentarii.
Harvard Dissertations in Religion 22.
Blennemann, Gordon.
"Martyre et prédication: Adpatations
d'un
modè
Boyarin, D.
“Martyrdom and the Making of Christianity and Judaism.”
Journal of Early Christian Studies
6 (1998): 577-627.
Castelli, Elizabeth.
Martyrdom and Memory:
Early Christian Culture Making.
Delehaye, Hyppolyte.
Les origines du culte des martyrs.
2nd
ed. Subsidia Hagiographica 20.
1933, rpt.
________.
Les Passions des martyrs et les
genres littéraires. 2nd ed.
Subsidia Hagiographica, vol. 13b.
Dupont, Anthony.
“Imitatio Christi, Imitatio
Stephani. Augustine’s thinking
on Martyrdom Based on his Sermons on the Protomartyr Stephan.”
Augustiniana 56 (2006): 29-61.
Elliot, Alison
Goddard.
Roads to
Fontaine, Jacques. “Le culte des martyrs militaires et son expression poétique au IVe siècle: L’idéal évangélique de la non-violence dans la christianisme théodosien.” Augustinianum 20 (1980): 141-71.
Frend, W. H. C.
Martyrdom and Persecution in the
Early Church: A Study of a Conflict
from the Macchabees to Donatus. Garden City, NY: Anchor Books,
1967.
Leclercq, Henri.
“Martyr.”
Dictionnaire d’archéologie chrétienne et
de liturgie. 15 vols.
Mertens, Cées.
“Les premiers martyrs et leurs rêves:
Cohésion de l’histoire et des rêves dans quelques Passions
latines de l’Afrique du Nord.”
Revue d’histoire ecclésiastique 81
(1986): 5-46.
Newbold, R. F.
“Personality Structure and Response to Adversity in Early Christian
Hagiography.”
Numen 31 (1984): 199-215.
Palmer, Anne-Marie.
Prudentius on the Martyrs.
Rhee, Helen.
Early Christian Literature:
Christ and Culture in the Second and Third Centuries.
The Apologies, Apocryphal Acts, and Martyr Acts.
Routledge Early Church Monographs.
New York: Routledge, 2005.
Carole Straw, "Martyrdom
and Christian Identity: Gregory the Great, Augustine, and
Tradition." In The Limits of Ancient
Christianity: Essays on Late Antique Thought and Culture in Honor of R. A.
Markus, edited by William E. Klingshirn and
Mark Vessey.
Saxer, Victor.
Bible et hagiographie.
Textes et thèmes bibliques dans les actes des martyrs authentiques des
premiers siècles.
Shepkaru, Shmuel.
Jewish Martyrs in the Pagan and Christian
Worlds.
Straw, Carole. “Settling
Scores: Eschatology in the Church
of the Martyrs.” In Last Things:
Death and the Apocalypse in the Middle Ages, edited by Caroline Walker
Bynum and Paul Friedman. Philadelphia:
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000.
Pp.. 21-40.
Thacker, Alan.
“Rome of the Martyrs:
Saints, Cults and Relics, Fourth to Seventh Centuries.”
In Roma Felix:
Formation and Reflections of Medieval Rome, edited by Éamonn Ó Carragáin and Carol Neuman de Vegvar.
Aldershot, UK: Ashgate 2007.
Pp.13-49. See also Caroline
J. Goodson. “Building for Bodies:
The Architecture of Saint Veneration in Early Medieval Rome,”
Ibid. 51-79
Van Henten, Jan
Willem. “The Martyrs as Heroes of
the Christian People: Some Remarks
on the Continuity between Jewish and Christian Martyrology, with Pagan
Analogies.” In
Martyrium in Multidisciplinary
Perspective: Memorial Louis
Reekmans, edited by M.
Lamberigts and P. Van Deun.
[Later
Martyr Legends
Colbert, Edward P.
The Martyrs of Córdoba (850-859):
A Study of the Sources.
The
Coope, Jessica A.
The Martyrs of
Cutler, A. “The Ninth-Century Spanish Martyrs’ Movement and the Origins of Western Christian Missions to the Muslims.” Muslim World 55 (1965): 321-39.
Drees, Clayton J.
“Sainthood and Suicide:
The Motives of the Martyrs of
Jacobus da Voragine. The Golden Legend. Any edition. Four-fifths of this legendary consists of accounts of martyred saints as these were envisioned in the thirteenth century.
Dailey, Alice. The English Martyr: From
Reformation to Revolution: ReFormations, Medieval and Early Modern. Notre
Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2012.
White, Helen Constance.
Tudor Books of Saints and Martyrs.
Gallonio, Antonio.
Torture:
Torments of the Christian Martyrs, translated by A. R. Allinson.
Gregory, Brad F.
Salvation at Stake:
Christian Martyrdom in Early Modern
Kolb, Robert.
For All the Saints:
Changing Perceptions of Martyrdom and
Sainthood in the