List #5: Monastic Saints

 

Primary Sources from the Early Middle Ages:

                                                          

[Adalard]  Charlemagne’s Cousins:  Contemporary Lives of Adalard and Wala.  Syracuse:  Syracuse University Press, 1967.

 

[Columba]  Adomnán of Iona: Life of St. Columba.  Baltimore: Penguin Books, 1995.

                           

[Benedict]  Saint Gregory the Great: Dialogues.[Book II]. Translated by Odo John Zimmermann. The Fathers of the Church 49.  New York:  Fathers of the Church, 1959.  Many independent translations of Dialogues II are aavilable online, including one in the Medieval Sourcebook.

 

[Ceolfrith] Anglo-Saxon Saints and Heroes.  Translated by Clinton Albertson.  New York:  Fordham University Press, 1967.

 

[Guthlac]  Saints’ Lives and Chronicles in Early England:  Together with First English Translations of “The Oldest Life of Pope St. Gregory the Great” by a Monk of Whitby and “The Life of St. Guthlac of Crowland” by Felix, translated by Charles W. Jones.  Ithaca:  Cornell University Press, 1947.

 

[Guthlac] Anglo-Saxon Saints and Heroes.  Translated by Clinton Albertson.  New York:  Fordham University Press, 1967.

 

[Leoba] The Anglo-Saxon Missionaries in Germany:  Being the Lives of SS. Willibrord, Boniface, Sturm, Leoba and Lebuin, with the Hodoeporicon of St. Willibald and a Selection from the Correspondence of St. Boniface,  translated and edited by Charles H. Talbot.  The Makers of Christendom.  New York:  Sheed and Ward, 1954. 

        

[Odo of Cluny]  St. Odo of Cluny:  Being the Life of St. Odo of Cluny by John of Salerno and the Life of St. Gerald of Aurillac by St. Odo, translated by Gerard Sitwell.  The Makers of Christendom.  London:  Sheed and Ward, 1958.

 

[Sturm] The Anglo-Saxon Missionaries. translated and edited by Talbot. 

                     

 

Primary Sources from the High Middle Ages:

 

[Anselm] The Life of St. Anselm, Archbishop of Canterbury, by Eadmer, edited and Translated by R. 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;  Saint Anselm:  A Portrait in a Landscape.    Cambridge/ New York Cambridge University Press, 1990. 

 

[Christina of Markyate] Christina of Markyate: A Twelfth-Century Recluse, edited and translated by Charles H. Talbot.  Oxford:  Clarendon Press, 1987.

 

[Gilbertof Sempringham] The Book of St. Gilbert, edited by Raymonde Foreville and Gillian Keir.  Oxford Medieval Texts. New York:  Oxford University Press, 1987.

 

 

Secondary Sources from the Early Middle Ages:

 

Aherne, Consuelo Maria. Valerio of Bierzo: An Ascetic of the Late Visigothic Period.  Washington, DC:  Catholic University of America Press, 1949.                          

 

Bonner, Gerald, David Rollason, and Clare Stancliffe., eds. St. Cuthbert:  His Cult and Community to AD 1200.  Wolfeboro NH: Boydell & Brewer, 1989.

 

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

 

Davies, Wendy.  “Property Rights and Property Claims in Welsh Vitae of the Eleventh Century.”  In Hagiographie, cultures, et sociétés, IVe-XIIe siècles: Actes du colloque organisé à Nanterre et à Paris (2-5 mai 1979), edited by the Centre de recherches sur l’antiquité tardive et le haut moyen âge, Université de Paris X.  Paris:  Études augustiniennes, 1981.  Pp. 515-33.

 

Head, Thomas.  Hagiography and the Cult of Saints:  The Diocese of Orléans, 800-1200.  Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought, 4th ser., 14.  Cambridge:  Cambridge University Press, 1990.

 

Howe, John.  Church Reform and Social Change in Eleventh-Century Central Italy: Dominic of Sora and His Patrons. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1997.

                                                             

Hunt, Noreen, ed.  Cluniac Monasticism in the Central Middle Ages.  Hamden, CN:  Archon Books, 1971.

 

Iogna-Pratt, Dominique.  Agni Immaculati”:  Recherches sur les sources hagiographiques relatives à Saint Maieul de Cluny. Paris: Cerf, 1988.

                                                                                                 

Klüppel, Theodor. Reichenauer Hagiographie zwischen Walafrid und Berno. Sigmaringen:  Jan Thorbecke, 1980.

 

Leclercq, Jean.  The Love of Learning and the Desire for God: A Study of Monastic Culture, translated by Catherine Misrahi. New York:  Fordham University Press, 1960. 

 

McLaughlin, Megan. Consorting with Saints: Prayer for the Dead in Early Medieval France.  Ithaca:  Cornell University Press, 1994.

 

Mériaux, Charles.  Gallia Irradiata:  Saints et sanctuaires dans le nord de la Gaule du haut Moyen Âge. Beiträge zur Hagiographie 4.  Stuttgart:  Franz Steiner, 2006.

 

Parsons. David, ed.  Tenth-Century Studies: Essays in Commemoration of the Millennium of the Council of Winchester and the Regularis Concordia. London: Phillimore & Co., 1975.

 

Poulin, Joseph Claude.  L’ideal de sainteté dans l’Aquitaine carolingienne d’après les sources hagiographiques (750-950).  Travaux du Laboratoire d’histoire religieuse de l’Université Laval 1.  Quebec:  Les Presses de l’Université Laval, 1975.              

 

Rabe, Susan A.  Faith, Art, and Politics at Saint-Riquier: The Symbolic Vision of Angilbert. Philadelphia:  University of Pennsylvania Press, 1995.

 

Rollason, D.W.  The Mildrith Legend:  A Study in Early Medieval Hagiography in England.  Studies in the Early History of Britain.  Leicester:  Leicester University Press, 1982. 

 

Smith, Julia.  “The Function of Female Sanctity in Carolingian Europe, ca. 780-920.”  Past and Present 146 (1995):  3-37.

 

Stancliffe, Clare. St. Cuthbert: His Cult and Community to AD 1200. Wolfeboro, NH:  Boydell, 1989.

                                          

 

Secondary Sources from the High Middle Ages:

 

Bredero, Adriaan H.  Bernard of Clairvaux between Cult and History.  Grand Rapids, MI:  William B. Eerdmans, 1996.

 

Clay, Mary Rotha. The Hermits and Anchorites of England. 1915, rpt. Detroit:  Singing Tree Press, 1968.  

                           

Chenu, Marie-Dominique.  “Monks, Canons, and Laymen in Search of the Apostolic Life” and “The Evangelical Awakening.”  In Nature, Man, and Society in the Twelfth Century:  Essays on New Theological Perspectives in the Latin West, translated by Jerome Taylor and Lester Little.  Chicago:  University of Chicago Press, 1968.  Pp. 202-69.

 

Elkins, Susan K.  Holy Women of Twelfth Century England. Studies in Religion. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1988.

 

Golding, Brian.  Gilbert of Sempringham and the Gilbertine Order, ca. 1130-c. 1300. Oxford:  Clarendon Press, 1995.

 

Harper-Bill, Christopher. “Herluin, Abbot of Bec, and His Biographer.”  In Religious Motivation:  Biographical and Sociological Problems for the Church Historian.  Papers Read at the Sixteenth Summer Meeting and the Seventeenth Winter Meeting of the Ecclesiastical History Society, edited by Derek Baker.  Studies in Church History 15.  Oxford:  Basil Blackwell, 1978.  Pp. 15-25.                   

                                 

Heffernan, Thomas J.  “Sanctity in the Cloister:  Walter Daniel’s Vita Sancti Aelredi and Rhetoric.”  In Sacred Biography:  Saints and Their Biographers in the Middle Ages, edited by Heffernan  New York: Oxford University Press, 1988. Pp. 72-122.

 

Jestice, Phylis. Wayward Monks and the Religious Revolution of the Eleventh Century. Leiden: Brill, 1997.

Jotischky, Andrew. The Perfection of Solitude:  Hermits and Monks in the Crusader States. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1995.

 

Leyser, Henrietta.  Hermits and the New Monasticism: A Study of Religious Communities in Western Europe, 1000-1150.  New York:  Saint Martin’s, 1984.

 

Licence, Tom. Hermits and Recluses in English Society, 950-1200. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011.

                 

Mayr-Harting, H.  “Functions of a Twelfth Century Recluse.”  History 60 (1975):  337-52.

 

Michalowski, Roman.  “Il culto dei santi fondatori nei monasteri tedeschi dei secoli XI e XII - Proposte di ricerca.” In Culto dei santi, istituzioni e classi sociali in età preindustriale, edited by Sofia Boesch Gajano and Lucia Sebastiani.  Collana di studi storici 1.  L’Aquila:  L. U. Japadre, 1984.  Pp. 105-40. 

 

Millinger, Susan.  “Humility and Power:  Anglo-Saxon Nuns in Anglo-Norman Hagiography.”  In  Medieval Religious Women.  Vol. I:  Distant Echoes, edited by John A. Nichols and Lillian Thomas Shank.  Cistercian Studies Series 71.  Kalamazoo:  Cistercian Publications, 1984.

 

Roisin, Simone.  L’hagiographie cistercienne dans le diocèse de Liège au XIIIe siècle.  Université de Louvain, Recueil de Travaux d’histoire et de philologie, ser. 3, vol. 27.  Louvain:  Bibliothèque de l’Université, 1947.

 

Vanderputten, Steven. Imagining Religious Leadership in the Middle Ages: Richard of Saint-Vanne and the Politics of Reform. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2015.

 

Vanderputten, Steven. Monastic Reform as Process: Realities and Representations in Medieval Flanders, 900-1100. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2013.

 

Van Engen, John H., Rupert of Deutz. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1983.

 

Waddell, Chrysogonus.  “Simplicity and Ordinariness:  The Climate of Early Cistercian Hagiography.”  In Simplicity and Ordinariness:  Studies in Medieval Cistercian History 4.  Cistercian Studies Series 61.  Kalamazoo:  Cistercian Publications, 1980.  Pp. 1-47.

 

Warren, Ann K.  Anchorites and Their Patrons in Medieval England.  Berkeley:  University of California Press, 1985.