Early Medieval Hagiography, Composite Manuscripts, and “New Philological” Perspectives


7. Bibliography


Manuscripts:

  • St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 561
  • Zürich, Zentralbibliothek, Ms. C 10i

Primary Sources:

  • Baudonivia and Venantius Fortunatus, Life of Radegund. Edition: De Vita Sanctae Radegundis Libris Duo, ed. Bruno Krusch (MGH Script. rer. Merov., 2), Hanover: Hahn, 1888. Translation: Jo Ann McNamara and John E. Halborg, “Radegund, Queen of the Franks and Abbess of Poitiers (ca. 525–587).” In eds. Idem, Sainted Women of the Dark Ages, Durham NC: Duke University Press, 1992.
  • Gregory of Tours, Histories. Edition: Libri historiarum X, ed. B. Krusch and W. Levison, (Monumenta Germaniae Historica, Scriptores rerum Merovingicarum I.1; 2nd ed.; Hannover, 1951). Translation: Gregory of Tours, The History of the Franks, trans. L. Thorpe (Penguin Classics; London, 1974).
  • Gregory of Tours, Lives of the Fathers. Edition: Liber Vitae Patrum, ed. B. Krusch, (Monumenta Germaniae Historica, Scriptores rerum Merovingicarum 1.2, Hannover: 1885). Translation: Life of the Fathers, trans. E. James (Translated Texts for Historians: Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 1991).

Secondary Sources:

  • Brown, Peter, The Cult of Saints: Its Rise and Function in Late Antiquity (Chicago: Chicago UP, 1982).
  • Driscoll, M.J., "The Words on the Page: Thoughts on Philology, Old and New", in: eds. Judy Quinn & Emily Lethbridge,  Creating the medieval saga: Versions, variability, and editorial interpretations of Old Norse saga literature (Odense: Syddansk Universitetsforlag, 2010), pp. 85-102.
  • Kreiner, Jamie, The Social Life of Hagiography in the Merovingian Kingdom (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2014).
  • Palmer, James, Early Medieval Hagiography (York: ARC Humanities Press, 2018).
  • Shanzer, Danuta, “So Many Saints — So Little Time ... the ‘Libri Miraculorum’ of Gregory of Tours”, The Journal of Medieval Latin 13 (2003), pp. 19–60
  • Van Egmond, Wolfert S., Conversing with the Saints: Communication with pre-Carolingian hagiography from Auxerre  (Utrecht Studies in Medieval Literacy, 15: Turnhout: Brepols, 2006).