List #6A: Lives of Holy Kings and Queens 

Primary Sources:

[Adelheid].  See [Mathilda], Queenship.

The Life of King Edward Who Rests at Westminster Attributed to a Monk of St. Bertin, edited and translated by Frank Barlow.  Medieval Texts.  London:  Thomas Nelson and Sons, 1962.

[Re Oswald, Oswine, and other holy kings]  Bede’s Ecclesiastical History of the English People.  Book III,  edited by Bertram Colgrave and R.A.B. Mynors.  Oxford Medieval Texts. Oxford:  Clarendon, 1969.  Pp. 208-323.

[Mathilda], Queenship and Sanctity:  The “Lives” of Matilda and the “Epitaph” of Adelheid, translated by Sean Gilsdorf.  Washington, DC:  Catholic University of America Press, 2004.

Medieval Slavic Lives of Saints and Princes, edited and translated by Marvin Kantor. Michigan Slavic Translations 5. Ann Arbor:  University of Michigan Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, 1983.

“Vitae Sanctorum Generis Regii.”  Monumenta Germaniae Historica  Scriptorum Rerum Merovingicarum.  Hannover:  Hahn, 1888.  3:329-524.

Secondary Sources:

Bloch, Marc.  The Royal Touch:  Sacred Monarchy and Scrofula in France and England, translated by J. E. Anderson.  London:  Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1973.

Chaney, William A.  The Cult of Kingship in Anglo-Saxon England:  The Transition from Paganism to Christianity. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1970.

Chaney, William A.  “The Royal Role in the Conversion of England.” Journal of Church and State 9 (1967):  317-31.

Chase, Colin.  “Beuwulf, Bede, and St. Oswine:  The Hero’s Pride in Old English Hagiography.”  The Anglo-Saxons: Synthesis and Achievement, edited by J. Douglas Woods and David A. E. Pelteret.  Waterloo Ontario:  Wilfrid Laurier University, 1985. Pp. 37-48.

Corbet, Patrick.  Les saints ottoniens:  Sainteté dynastique, sainteté royale et sainteté féminine autour de l’an Mil.  Beihefte der Francia 15.  Sigmaringen:  Jan Thorbecke, 1986.      

Erkens, Franz-Reiner. “Religiöse Herschaftslegitimierung im Mittelalter.” Zeitschrift der Savigny-Stiftung für Rechtsgeschichte: Kanonistische Abteilung 89 (2003): 1-55.

Folz, Robert.  Les saints reines du moyen âge en occident (VIe-XIIIe siècles).  Subsidia Hagiographica 76.  Brussels:  Bollandistes, 1992.

Folz, Robert.  Les saints rois du moyen âge en occident, VIe-XIIIe siècles.  Subsidia Hagiographica 68.  Brussels:  Société des Bollandistes, 1984.

Gaposchkin, M. Cecilia.  The Making of Saint Louis: Kingship, Sanctity, and Crusade in the Later Middle Ages. Ithaca:  Cornell University Press, 2008.

Graus, Frantisek. “La sanctification du souverain dans l’Europe centrale des Xe et XIe siècles.”  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:  Etudes augustiniennes, 1981.  Pp. 559-72.       

Graus, Frantisek. “Die Stellung zum König und zur weltlichen Gewalt bis zur Karolingerzeit.”  In Volk, Herrscher and Heiliger im Riech der Merowinger:  Studien zur Hagiographie der Merowingerzeit, edited by Graus.  Prague:  Tzchechoslowakische Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1965. Pp. 303-437.

Herrick, Samantha Kahn.  "Heirs to the Apostles: Saintly Power and Ducal Authority in Hagiography of Early Normandy."  In The Experience of Power in Medieval Europe, 950-1350, edited by Robert F. Berkhofer III, Alan Cooper, and Adam J. Kosto. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2005. Pp. 11-24.

Ingham, Norman W.  “The Sovereign as Martyr, East and West.”  Slavic and East European Journal 17 (1993):  1-17.

Klaniczay, Gábor.  “The Cult of Dynastic Saints in Central Europe:  Fourteenth-Century Angevins and Luxemburgs.”  In The Uses of Supernatural Power: The Transformation of Popular Religion in Medieval and Early Modern Europe, translated by Susan Singerman.  Princeton:  Princeton University Press, 1990.  Pp. 111-28.

Klaniczay, Gábor.  “From Sacral Kingship to Self-Representation.  Hungarian and European Royal Saints in the 11th-13th Centuries.” In Continuity and Change:  Political Institutions and Literary Monuments in the Middle Ages: A Symposium, edited by Elisabeth Vestergaard.  Odense:  Odense University Press, 1986.  Pp. 61-86.

Klaniczay, Gábor. Holy Rulers and Blessed Princesses: Dynastic Cults in Medieval Central Europe,.translated by Ėva Pálmai.  Past & Present Publications.  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002.

Krüger, Karl Heinrich. “Königskonversionen im 8. Jahrhundert.” Frühmittelalterliche Studien 7 (1973):  169-222.      

Lenhoff, Gail.  The Martyred Princes Boris and Gleb:  A Socio-Cultural Study of the Cult and the Texts.  UCLA Medieval Slavic Studies. Columbus OH:  Slavica Publishers, 1989.

Nelson, Janet.  “Royal Saints and Early Medieval Kingship.”  In Sanctity and Secularity: The Church and the World, edited by Derek Baker. Studies in Church History 10.  Oxford:  Basil Blackwell, 1973.  Pp. 39-44.

Oakley, Francis. Empty Bottles of Gentilism: Kingship and the Divine in Late Antiquity (to 1050). New Haven: Yale University Press, 2010.

Oakley, Francis. Kingship:The Politics of Enchantment. Oxford: Blackwell, 2006.

Petersohn, Jürgen, ed.  Politik und Heiligenverehrung im Hochmittelalter. Voträge und Forschungen 42.  Sigmaringen:  Jan Thorbecke, 1994.

Ridyard, Susan.  The Royal Saints of Anglo-Saxon England.  New York:  Cambridge University Press, 1988.

Rollason, D.W.  “The Cults of Murdered Royal Saints in Anglo-Saxon England.” Anglo-Saxon England 11 (1983):  1-22.

Rosenthal, Joel T.  “Edward the Confessor and Robert the Pious:  Eleventh Century Kingship and Biography.” Mediaeval Studies 33 (1971):  7-20.

Sot, Michel.  “Hérédité royale et pouvoir sacré avant 987.” Annales:  Economies, sociétés, civilisations 93 (1988):  705-33.

Stancliffe, Clare E. “Kings and Conversion:  Some Comparisons between the Roman Mission to England and Patrick’s to Ireland.”  Frühmittelalterliche Studien 14 (1980):  59-94.

Stancliffe, Clare E., and Eric Cambridge. Oswald, Northumbrian King to European Saint. Stamford, UK: Paul Watkins, 1995.

Theis, Laurent. “Robert le Pieux était-il pieux?” In Fulbert de Chartres, précurseur de l’Europe médiévale? Paris: Presses de l’Université Paris-Sorbonne, 2008. Pp. 129-35.