Recent Publications and Addenda to the Edition
Most of the following items postdate the publication of C. Rauer, ed., The Old English Martyrology: Edition, Translation and Commentary, Anglo-Saxon Texts 10 (Cambridge, 2013) and were therefore not included in its bibliographical survey. Other, earlier, items omitted by oversight from the edition are also listed here.
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List of corrigenda to C. Rauer, ed., The Old English Martyrology: Edition, Translation and Commentary, Anglo-Saxon Texts 10 (Cambridge, 2013)
- Downey, S., 'Intertextuality in the Lives of St. Guthlac' (PhD dissertation, University of Toronto, 2004), esp. pp. 176-85 [particularly on 63 Guthlac, with discussion of possible liturgical source material for this entry]
- Elliott, W. S., 'Sex and the Single Saint: Physicality in Anglo-Saxon Female Saints' Lives' (PhD dissertation, University of Georgia) [with discussion of various female saints, especially Æthelthryth 110]
- Tamburr, K., The Harrowing of Hell in Medieval England (Cambridge, 2007) [extensive background information on the harrowing of hell, and brief reference to 56 Christ's Descent into Hell, p. 75]
- Jones, C. A., 'Old English Words for Relics of the Saints', Constructing a World One Word at a Time: Papers on The Dictionary of Old English Project, ed. M. J. Toswell, Florilegium 26 (2009), 85-129 [on general usage of relic vocabulary in the Old English Martyrology, including specific reference to 176 Marcellus, 69 Rogation Day and 78 Rogation Days]
- Heuchan, V. S., 'All Things to All Men: Representations of the Apostle Paul in Anglo-Saxon Literature' (PhD dissertation, University of Toronto, 2010), pp. 114-115 [brief comments on 114 Peter and Paul]
- Olivieri, L., 'L'Old English Martyrology e il culto micaelico dal santuario garganico alla Northumbria', Vetera christianorum 48 (2011), 305-17 [on 82 Discovery of St Michael's Church]
- Rauer, C., ‘Errors and Textual Problems in the Old English Martyrology’, Neophilologus 97 (2013), 147-64, at 157-8 [for a different interpretation of the mother’s actions (and the required textual changes) in 4 Stephen; the reference should be to weeping, not throwing her child]
- Semper, P., 'Byð se ealda man ceald and snoflig': Stereotypes and Subversions of the Last Stages of the Life Cycle in Old English Texts and Anglo-Saxon Contexts', Medieval Life Cycles: Continuity and Change, ed. I. Cochelin and K. Smyth, International Medieval Research 18 (Turnhout, 2013), 287-318, esp. pp. 302, 304 and 307 [on old age in 207 Luke, 211 Hilarion, 22 Antony the Hermit, 136 Simeon Stylites and 221 Winnoc]
- Lapidge, M., 'The Saintly Life in Anglo-Saxon England', The Cambridge Companion to Old English Literature, ed. M. Godden and M. Lapidge, 2nd edn (Cambridge, 2013), pp. 251-72 [updated version of 1st edn article]
- Kramer, J., Between Earth and Heaven: Liminality and the Ascension of Christ in Anglo-Saxon Literature (Manchester, 2014) [pp. 13-19, 72-96, 155 and 208-10, with extensive analysis of 79 Ascension and 78 Rogation Days]
- Key, J. S., 'Death in Anglo-Saxon Hagiography: Approaches, Attitudes, Aesthetics' (PhD dissertation, University of St Andrews, 2014) [includes the Old English Martyrology in its motif index and discussion of hagiographic death motifs]
- Lapidge, M., 'Martyrology, OE', The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Anglo-Saxon England, ed. M. Lapidge and others, 2nd edn (Oxford, 2014), pp. 308-9 [updated version of 1st edn article]
- Gneuss, H. and M. Lapidge, Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts: A Bibliographical Handlist of Manuscripts and Manuscript Fragments Written or Owned in England up to 1100 (Toronto, 2014)
- Lazzari, L., 'Kingship and Sainthood in Ælfric: Oswald (634-642) and Edmund (840-869)', Hagiography in Anglo-Saxon England: Adopting and Adapting Saints' Lives into Old English Prose (c. 950-1150), ed. L. Lazzari, P. Lendinara and C. Di Sciacca, Textes et études du moyen âge 73 (Barcelona, 2014), pp. 29-65, at 47 [brief comment on 146 Oswald]
- Irvine, S., 'Hanging by a Thread: Ælfric's Saints' Lives and the Hengen', Hagiography in Anglo-Saxon England: Adopting and Adapting Saints' Lives into Old English Prose (c. 950-1150), ed. L. Lazzari, P. Lendinara and C. Di Sciacca, Textes et études du moyen âge 73 (Barcelona, 2014), pp. 67-94, at 80-2 [on the description of Datianus in 31 Vincent]
- Rudolf, W., 'The Selection and Compilation of the Verba seniorum in Worcester, Cathedral Library, F.48', Hagiography in Anglo-Saxon England: Adopting and Adapting Saints' Lives into Old English Prose (c. 950-1150), ed. L. Lazzari, P. Lendinara and C. Di Sciacca, Textes et études du moyen âge 73 (Barcelona, 2014), pp. 183-227, at 188 [brief reference to 131 Arsenius]
- Giliberto, C., 'The Descensus ad inferos in the Old English Prose Life of St Guthlac and Verceli Homily XXIII', Hagiography in Anglo-Saxon England: Adopting and Adapting Saints' Lives into Old English Prose (c. 950-1150), ed. L. Lazzari, P. Lendinara and C. Di Sciacca, Textes et études du moyen âge 73 (Barcelona, 2014), pp. 229-53, at 231 [brief reference to 63 Guthlac]
- De Bonis, G. D., 'The Birth of Saint John the Baptist: A Source Comparison between Blickling Homily XIV and Ælfric's Catholic Homily I.XXV', Hagiography in Anglo-Saxon England: Adopting and Adapting Saints' Lives into Old English Prose (c. 950-1150), ed. L. Lazzari, P. Lendinara and C. Di Sciacca, Textes et études du moyen âge 73 (Barcelona, 2014), pp. 255-91, at 255-6, 276 and 278 [on 36 The Discovery of the Head of St John the Baptist, 111 The Birth of St John the Baptist, 168 The Death of St John the Baptist, 180 The Birth of St Mary, and 194 The Conception of St John the Baptist]
- Lendinara, P., 'Forgotten Missionaries: St Augustine of Canterbury in Anglo-Saxon and Post-Conquest England', Hagiography in Anglo-Saxon England: Adopting and Adapting Saints' Lives into Old English Prose (c. 950-1150), ed. L. Lazzari, P. Lendinara and C. Di Sciacca, Textes et études du moyen âge 73 (Barcelona, 2014), pp. 365-497, at 383 and 386--93 [on 42 Pope Gregory the Great and 92 Augustine of Canterbury]
- Billett, J. D., The Divine Office in Anglo-Saxon England 597-c.1000, Henry Bradshaw Society Subsidia 7 (London, 2014), p. 147n [brief remarks on the sacramentaries used by the martyrologist]
- Frantzen, A. J., Food, Eating and Identity in Early Medieval England, Anglo-Saxon Studies 22 (Woodbridge, 2014), pp. 153-4 [on 40 Eastorwine and 196 Ceolfrith]
- Thier, K., Old English Sea Terms (Ely, 2014), pp. 39-40 [entry for 'bytme', rare vocabulary used in 125 Rufina and Secunda]
- Karasawa, K., ed., The Old English Metrical Calendar (Menologium), Anglo-Saxon Texts 12 (Cambridge, 2015) [extensive and detailed reference to the Old English Martyrology, particularly the calendrical system, the names of the months, Rogation Day 69, Lammas Day 142 and Pope Clement I 228]
- Dresvina, J., A Maid with a Dragon: The Cult of St Margaret of Antioch in Medieval England (Oxford, 2016), pp. 24-5, 208 [on Margaret / Marina]
- Rauer, C., 'The Old English Martyrology and Anglo-Saxon Glosses’, Latinity and Identity in Anglo-Saxon England, ed. R. Stephenson and E. V. Thornbury (Toronto, 2016), pp. 73-92
- Rauch, S. I., 'Patristic Number Symbolism in Anglo-Saxon England' (PhD dissertation, University College Dublin, 2016), esp. pp. 265-73 [dissertation embargoed until 2021]
- Biggs, F. M., 'The Form, Sources, and Date of Bede's Martyrologium: SS Almachus, Anastasius, Augustine, Æthelthryth, and the Discovery of the Head of St John the Baptist' (forthcoming)
- Hawk, B. W., Preaching Apocrypha in Anglo-Saxon England, Toronto Anglo-Saxon Series 30 (Toronto, 2018) [source discussion on 77 Discovery of the Holy Cross, 73 Christopher, 57 Christ's Descent into Hell, and Ælfric's use of the Old English Martyrology]
- Dekker, K., 'Glosses, Glossaries and Encyclopaedic Notes', Studies on Late Antique and Medieval Germanic Glossography and Lexicography in Honour of Patrizia Lendinara, ed. C. Di Sciacca and others, 2 vols (Pisa, 2018), I, 177-95, at 185 [on the list of sciences in 232 Chrysanthus and Daria]
- Hall, T. N., 'An Unrecorded Tradition of St. Michael in Old English Texts - Now Recorded', Notes and Queries 66 (2019), 492-8 [source discussion of 199 The Consecration of St Michael's Church]
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