Studies: Sources,
Composition
The following is a register of
research on the sources of the Old English Martyrology, listed in order
of publication. To obtain more specific source bibliographies for individual
entries (for instance, individual saints), cf. the Fontes Anglo-Saxonici
database at http://fontes.english.ox.ac.uk.
[On entering the database, choose 'Search Database', then 'Anglo-Saxon Author',
'ANON (OE Martyrology'), and 'Submit Query']. For a recent overview of these
database entries, see C. Rauer, 'The Sources of the Old English Martyrology',
Anglo-Saxon England 32 (2003), 89-109 [includes handlist of all traced
sources].
1860-1869
- Hardy, T. D., Descriptive Catalogue
of Materials Relating to the History of Great Britain and Ireland to the
End of the Reign of Henry VII, 3 vols., Rolls Series 50-53 (London,
1862-71), I, passim (for page nos., see G. Kotzor, ed., Das altenglische
Martyrologium, I, 12 n.40) [lists various Old English Martyrology
entries, identifies sources in three cases]
- Cockayne, O., ed., The Shrine: A Collection
of Occasional Papers on Dry Subjects (London, 1864-70), pp. 33-5 and
44-157 [edition of the text with numerous annotations on literary sources;
many identifications still valid]
1900-1909
- Herzfeld, G., ed., An Old English Martyrology,
Early English Text Society os 116 (London, 1900), pp. xxxii-xliii [many
important identifications; now largely superseded by Cross's work]
- Förster, M., Zur altenglischen
Quintinus-Legende', Archiv 106 (1901), 258-61 [On St Quentin; general
remarks on the composition of the text]
- Cook, A. S., Biblical Quotations in Old
English Prose Writers: Second Series (NewYork, 1903)
1930-1939
- Rosenthal, C. L., The Vitæ Patrum
in Old and Middle English Literature (Philadelphia, 1936)
1950-1959
- Sisam, C., An Early Fragment of the
Old English Martyrology', Review of English Studies ns
4 (1953), 209-20, esp. 212-14 [on the feast of All Saints]
- Van Doren, R., 'Eadbert', Dictionnaire d'archéologie chrétienne et de liturgie, ed. F. Cabrol, 15 vols, (Paris, 1907-53), XIV, 1252 [on Eadberht]
1960-1969
- Cross, J. E., On the Blickling Homily
for Ascension Day (no. XI)', Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 70 (1969),
228-40 [on the Christological entries]
1970-1979
- Cross, J. E., De signis et prodigiis
in Versus Sancti Patricii episcopi de mirabilibus Hibernie', Proceedings
of the Royal Irish Academy 71C (1971), 247-54 [on the Birth of Christ]
- Cross, J. E., De ordine creaturarum
liber in Old English Prose', Anglia 90 (1972), 132-40
- Dumville, D. N.,‘Liturgical Drama and Panegyric Responsory from the Eighth Century? A Re-examination of the Origin and Contents of the Ninth-Century Section of the Book of Cerne’, Journal of Theological Studies ns 23 (1972), 374-406 [pp. 386, 406, on Christ's Descent into Hell]
- Cross, J. E., The Literate Anglo-Saxon:
On Sources and Disseminations', Proceedings of the British Academy
58 (1972), 67-100 [on source-hunting]
- Cross, J. E., Portents and Events at
Christ's Birth: Comments on Vercelli V and VI and the Old English Martyrology',
Anglo-Saxon England 2 (1973), 209-220
- Cross, J. E., Blickling Homily XIV
and the Old English Martyrology on John the Baptist', Anglia
93 (1975), 145-60
- Cross, J. E., Legimus in
ecclesiasticis historiis': A Sermon for All Saints, and its use in
Old English Prose', Traditio 33 (1977), 101-35
- Cross, J. E., Two Saints in the Old
English Martyrology', Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 78 (1977),
101-7 [on Eusebius of Vercelli and Justus]
- Cross, J. E., Mary Magdalen in the
Old English Martyrology: The Earliest Extant Narrat Josephus'
Variant of her Legend', Speculum 53 (1978), 16-25 [includes editions
of BHL 5453, BHL 5454 and BHL 5455]
- Cross, J. E., Popes of Rome in the
Old English Martyrology', Arca, Classical and Medieval Texts,
Papers and Monographs 3, ed. F. Cairns, Papers of the Liverpool Latin Seminar
2 (1979), 191-211 [on the Martyrologist's use of the Liber pontificalis]
- Cross, J. E., The Apostles in the Old
English Martyrology', Mediaevalia 5 (1979), 15-59
- Cross, J. E., 'Cynewulf's Traditions about
the Apostles in Fates of the Apostles', Anglo-Saxon England
8 (1979), 163-75
- Roberts, J., An Inventory of Early
Guthlac Materials', Mediaeval Studies 32 (1970), 193-233, at 203-4
1980-1989
- Cross, J. E., and C. J. Tuplin, An
Unrecorded Variant of the Passio S. Christinae and the Old
English Martyrology', Traditio 36 (1980), 161-236 [includes editions
of two variants of BHL 1748]
- Cross, J. E., An Unrecorded Tradition
of St. Michael in Old English Texts', Notes and Queries ns 28 (1981),
11-13 [on Michael in CCCC 41]
- Cross, J. E., Passio Symphoriani and
OE cun(d)', Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 82
(1981), 269-75
- Cross, J. E., The Influence of Irish
Texts and Traditions on the Old English Martyrology', Proceedings
of the Royal Irish Academy 81C (1981), 173-92
- Cross, J. E., Eulalia of Barcelona:
A Notice without Source in the Old English Martyrology', Notes
and Queries 28 (1981), 483-4
- Kotzor, G., ed., Das altenglische Martyrologium,
2 vols., Abhandlungen der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, phil.-hist.
Kl., ns 88.1-2 (Munich, 1981), I, 9-39, 192-233 and 244-311[on the composition
of the text, its sources, its relationship with other martyrologies and
calendars; numerous tables]
- Cross, J. E., A Lost Life of Hilda
of Whitby: The Evidence of the Old English Martyrology', The
Early Middle Ages, ed. W H. Snyder, Acta: Center for Medieval and Early
Renaissance Studies 6 (Binghamton, 1982), pp. 21-43 [on the extrapolation
of lost material from unsourced motifs]
- Campbell, J. J., ‘To Hell and Back; Latin Tradition and Literary Use of the ‘Descensus ad inferos’ in Old English’, Viator 13 (1982), 107-58
- Cross, J. E., Passio S. Eugeniae
et comitum and the Old English Martyrology', Notes and
Queries 29 (1982), 392-7
- Cross, J. E., Saints' Lives in Old
English: Latin Manuscripts and Vernacular Accounts: The Old English
Martyrology', Peritia 1 (1982), 38-62 [on George, Vincent,
Stephen and Vitus and Modestus]
- Cross, J. E., A Virgo in the Old
English Martyrology', Notes and Queries 29 (1982), 102-6 [on
the entry for Artemius; corrects a number of earlier misunderstandings]
- Cross, J. E., Cosmas and Damian in
the Old English Martyrology', Notes and Queries 30 (1983),
15-18
- Cross, J. E., Columba of Sens in the
Old English Martyrology', Notes and Queries 30 (1983),
195-8
- Cross, J. E., Euphemia and the Ambrosian
Missal', Notes and Queries 30 (1983), 18-22
- Cross, J. E., The Passio S. Laurentii
et aliorum: Latin Manuscripts and the Old English Martyrology',
Mediaeval Studies 45 (1983), 200-13
- Clayton, M., The Cult of the Virgin
Mary in Anglo-Saxon England with Special Reference to the Vernacular Texts'
(diss., Oxford, 1983), pp. 155-66 [on the sections on Mary and general remarks
concerning the composition; not entirely superseded by her later publications]
- Cross, J. E., Pelagia in Mediæval
England', Pélagie la Pénitente: Métamorphoses d'une
légende, ed. P. Petitmengin, 2 vols (Paris, 1981-4), II, 281-93
- Cross, J. E., Genesius of Rome and
Genesius of Arles', Notes and Queries 31 (1984), 149-52
- Cross, J. E., 'Source, Lexis, and Edition', Medieval Studies Conference Aachen 1983, ed. W.-D. Bald and H. Weinstock, Bamberger Beiträge zur Englischen Sprachwissenschaft 15 (Frankfurt a. M., 1984), pp. 25-36
- Cross, J. E., Antoninus of Apamea and
an Image in the Old English Martyrology', Notes and Queries
31 (1984), 18-22
- Ogilvy, J. D. A., Books Known to the
English, A. D. 597-1066: Addenda et Corrigenda', Mediaevalia 7
(1984), 281-325 [passim, on the sources of the Old English Martyrology,
now superseded]
- Cross, J. E., On the Library of the
Old English Martyrologist', Learning and Literature in Anglo-Saxon England:
Studies Presented to Peter Clemoes on the Occasion of his Sixty-Fifth Birthday,
ed. M. Lapidge and H. Gneuss (Cambridge, 1985), pp. 227-49 [summary of Cross's
previous work on the sources of the Old English Martyrology]
- Cross, J. E., The Use of Patristic
Homilies in the Old English Martyrology', Anglo-Saxon England
14 (1985), 107-28
- Kotzor, G., Anglo-Saxon Martyrologists
at Work: Narrative Pattern and Prose Style in Bede and the Old English
Martyrology', Leeds Studies in English 16 (1985), 152-73 [on
the composition of martyrologies]
- Leinbaugh, T. H., St Christopher and
the Old English Martyrology: Latin Sources, and the Phrase hwæs
gneaðes', Notes and Queries 32 (1985), 434-7
- Lapidge, M., The School of Theodore
and Hadrian', originally published in Anglo-Saxon England 15 (1986),
45-72, repr. in his Anglo-Latin Literature 600-899 (London, 1996),
p.145
- Cross, J. E., The Latinity of the Ninth-Century
Old English Martyrologist', Studies in Earlier Old English Prose, ed.
P. E. Szarmach (Albany, 1986), pp. 275-99 [vindication of the Martyrologist's
Latinity; supersedes most earlier arguments on this matter]
- Cross, J. E., Identification: Towards
Criticism', Modes of Interpretation in Old English Literature: Essays
in Honour of Stanley B. Greenfield, ed. P. R. Brown, G. R. Crampton
and F. C. Robinson (Toronto, 1986), pp. 229-46 [assorted sourcing work;
Pancras, Julian and Basilissa, the Forty Soldiers of Sebastea, Sosius, Lucy,
Mamas]
- Cross, J. E., The Use of a Passio
S. Sebastiani in the Old English Martyrology', Mediaevalia
14 (1988), 39-50
- Hill, J., Saint George before the Conquest',
Report of the Society of the Friends of St George's and the Descendants
of the Knights of the Garter 6 (1985-6), 284-95, at 288
- Kotzor, G., The Latin Tradition of
Martyrologies and the Old English Martyrology', Studies in
Earlier Old English Prose, ed. P. E. Szarmach (New York, 1986), pp.
301-33 [expansion of his earlier work on the (lack of a direct) relationship
between the Old English Martyrology and continental traditions]
1990-1999
- Biggs, F. M., Inventio sanctae
crucis', Sources of Anglo-Saxon Literary Culture: A Trial Version,
ed. F. M. Biggs, T. D. Hill and P. E. Szarmach, Medieval and Renaissance
Texts and Studies 74 (Binghamton, 1990), pp. 12-13
- Biggs, F. M., Passio Andreae',
Sources of Anglo-Saxon Literary Culture: A Trial Version, ed. F.
M. Biggs, T. D. Hill and P. E. Szarmach, Medieval and Renaissance Texts
and Studies 74 (Binghamton, 1990), pp. 53-4
- Biggs, F. M., Passio Bartholomaei',
Sources of Anglo-Saxon Literary Culture: A Trial Version, ed. F.
M. Biggs, T. D. Hill and P. E. Szarmach, Medieval and Renaissance Texts
and Studies 74 (Binghamton, 1990), p. 54
- Biggs, F. M., Passio Jacobi Minoris',
Sources of Anglo-Saxon Literary Culture: A Trial Version, ed. F.
M. Biggs, T. D. Hill and P. E. Szarmach, Medieval and Renaissance Texts
and Studies 74 (Binghamton, 1990), p. 56
- Biggs, F. M., Passio Matthei',
Sources of Anglo-Saxon Literary Culture: A Trial Version, ed. F.
M. Biggs, T. D. Hill and P. E. Szarmach, Medieval and Renaissance Texts
and Studies 74 (Binghamton, 1990), p. 58
- Biggs, F. M., Passio Philippi',
Sources of Anglo-Saxon Literary Culture: A Trial Version, ed. F.
M. Biggs, T. D. Hill and P. E. Szarmach, Medieval and Renaissance Texts
and Studies 74 (Binghamton, 1990), p. 61
- Biggs, F. M., Passio Simonis et
Judae', Sources of Anglo-Saxon Literary Culture: A Trial Version,
ed. F. M. Biggs, T. D. Hill and P. E. Szarmach, Medieval and Renaissance
Texts and Studies 74 (Binghamton, 1990), pp. 61-2
- Biggs, F. M., Passio Thomae',
Sources of Anglo-Saxon Literary Culture: A Trial Version, ed. F.
M. Biggs, T. D. Hill and P. E. Szarmach, Medieval and Renaissance Texts
and Studies 74 (Binghamton, 1990), pp. 62-3
- Biggs, F. M., Ps Abdias, Historiae
Apostolicae', Sources of Anglo-Saxon Literary Culture: A Trial
Version, ed. F. M. Biggs, T. D. Hill and P. E. Szarmach, Medieval and
Renaissance Texts and Studies 74 (Binghamton, 1990), pp. 50-1
- Tkacz, C. B., 'Christian Formulas in Old
English Literature: Næs Hyre Wlite Gewemmed and its Implications',
Traditio 48 (1993), 31-61 [on 59, Agape, Chionia (Irene)
and 61, Irene]
- Clayton, M. and H. Magennis, ed., The
Old English Lives of St Margaret, Cambridge Studies in Anglo-Saxon
England 9 (Cambridge, 1994), pp. 53-6
- Hall, T. N., Gospel of Ps Matthew',
Sources of Anglo-Saxon Literary Culture: A Trial Version, ed. F.
M. Biggs, T. D. Hill and P. E. Szarmach, Medieval and Renaissance Texts
and Studies 74 (Binghamton, 1990), pp. 43-5
- Johnson, R. F., The Cult of Saint Michael
the Archangel in Anglo-Saxon England' (diss., Northwestern University, 1998),
pp. 194-6 [discussion of all entries on Michael]
- Lapidge M., The Saintly Life in Anglo-Saxon
England', The Cambridge Companion to Old English Literature, ed.
M. Godden and M. Lapidge (Cambridge, 1991), pp. 243-63 [on Clement]
- Morey, J. H., Gospel of Nicodemus',
Sources of Anglo-Saxon Literary Culture: A Trial Version, ed. F.
M. Biggs, T. D. Hill and P. E. Szarmach, Medieval and Renaissance Texts
and Studies 74 (Binghamton, 1990), pp. 45-8
- Szarmach, P. E., Vita Martini Turonensis',
Sources of Anglo-Saxon Literary Culture: A Trial Version, ed. F.
M. Biggs, T. D. Hill and P. E. Szarmach, Medieval and Renaissance Texts
and Studies 74 (Binghamton, 1990), pp. 158-60
- Whatley, E. G., Eulalia Barcinone',
Sources of Anglo-Saxon Literary Culture: A Trial Version, ed. F.
M. Biggs, T. D. Hill and P. E. Szarmach, Medieval and Renaissance Texts
and Studies 74 (Binghamton, 1990), pp. 4-5
- Whatley, E. G., Felix Nolanus presbyter',
Sources of Anglo-Saxon Literary Culture: A Trial Version, ed. F.
M. Biggs, T. D. Hill and P. E. Szarmach, Medieval and Renaissance Texts
and Studies 74 (Binghamton, 1990), p. 8
- Whatley, E. G., Felix Romanus presbyter',
Sources of Anglo-Saxon Literary Culture: A Trial Version, ed. F.
M. Biggs, T. D. Hill and P. E. Szarmach, Medieval and Renaissance Texts
and Studies 74 (Binghamton, 1990), p. 9
- Whatley, E. G., Felix Tubzacensis',
Sources of Anglo-Saxon Literary Culture: A Trial Version, ed. F.
M. Biggs, T. D. Hill and P. E. Szarmach, Medieval and Renaissance Texts
and Studies 74 (Binghamton, 1990), pp. 9-10
- Whatley, E. G., Guthlacus', Sources
of Anglo-Saxon Literary Culture: A Trial Version, ed. F. M. Biggs,
T. D. Hill and P. E. Szarmach, Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies
74 (Binghamton, 1990), pp. 10-12
- Clayton, M., The Cult of the Virgin Mary
in Anglo-Saxon England, Cambridge Studies in Anglo-Saxon England 2
(Cambridge, 1990), pp. 213-17 [rewritten and expanded version of her doctoral
research (see above, 1983); both should be consulted independently]
- Bischoff, B. and M. Lapidge, ed., Biblical
Commentaries from the Canterbury School of Theodore and Hadrian, Cambridge
Studies in Anglo-Saxon England 10 (Cambridge, 1994), pp. 161-7, 184 [on Campanian saints and St Anastasia, 2]
- Orchard, A., 'Hot Lust in a Cold Climate:
Comparison and Contrast in the Old Norse Versions of the Life of Mary of
Egypt', The Legend of Mary of Egypt in Medieval Insular Hagiography,
ed. E. Poppe and B. Ross (Dublin, 1996), pp. 175-204, at 182-3 [on Mary
Magdalen, 133]
- Cross, J. E., English Vernacular Saints'
Lives before 1000 A. D.', Hagiographies: Histoire internationale de
la littérature hagiographique latine et vernaculaire en Occident
des origines à 1550, ed. G. Philippart (Turnhout, 1996), II,
413-27, at 422-4 [the Old English Martyrology in the context of
other early Anglo-Saxon hagiography]
- Roberts, J., 'Fela martyra 'many martyrs': A Different View of Orosius's City', Alfred the Wise: Studies in Honour of Janet Bately on the Occasion of her Sixty-Fifth Birthday, ed. J. Roberts, J. L. Nelson and M. Godden (Woodbridge, 1997), pp. 155-78
- Ruggerini, M. E., 'Saint Michael in the Old
English Martyrology', Studi e materiali di Storia delle Religioni
65 (1999), 181-97
- Glaeske, K., ''Eve in Anglo-Saxon Retellings
of the Harrowing of Hell', Traditio 54 (1999), 81-101 [on 57
Christ's Descent into Hell, and 53 The Sixth Day of Creation, Adam
and Eve]
- Cross, J. E., On Hiberno-Latin Texts
and Anglo-Saxon Writings', The Scriptures and Early Medieval Ireland,
ed. T. O'Loughlin, Instrumenta Patristica 31 (Turnhout, 1999), pp. 69-79
[on the use of Celtic sources in Anglo-Saxon England]
2000-2009
- Whatley, E. G., Acta Sanctorum', Sources
of Anglo-Saxon Literary Culture: Volume 1, ed. F. M. Biggs, T. D. Hill
and P. E. Szarmach (Kalamazoo, 2001) [compendium; lists all saints (minus
the apostles) commemorated in the Old English Martyrology, with
discussions of all corresponding hagiographical texts known in Anglo-Saxon
England; extensive bibliography]
- Fontes Anglo-Saxonici
database [lists specific details of all sources of the Old English
Martyrology identified to date, with bibliography. Allows searches
for individual saints, source-texts, source authors, text passages, source
passages etc.]
- Cross, J. E., 'The Notice on Marina (7 July)
and Passiones S. Margaritae', Old English Prose: Basic Readings,
ed. P. E. Szarmach with D. A. Oosterhouse, Basic Readings in Anglo-Saxon
England 5 (New York, 2000), pp. 419-32
- Johnson, R. F., 'Feasts of Saint Michael
the Archangel in the Liturgy of the Early Anglo-Saxon Church: Evidence from
the Eighth and Ninth Centuries', Leeds Studies in English ns 31
(2000), 55-79 [on 82 Discovery of St Michael's Church and 199
The Consecration of St Michael's Church]
- Rosser, S., 'Ælfric's Two Homilies
for May 3: The Invention of the Cross and the Martyrdom of Pope Alexander
and SS Eventius and Theodolus', Ælfric's Lives of Canonised Popes,
ed. D. Scragg, Old English Newsletter Subsidia 30 (Kalamazoo, 2001), pp.
55-73 [refers to 76 Pope Alexander I, Eventius, Theodolus]
- Roberts, J., 'Hagiography and Literature:
The Case of Guthlac of Crowland', Mercia: An Anglo-Saxon Kingdom in
Europe, ed. M. P. Brown and C. A. Farr (London, 2001), pp. 69-86 [on
63 St Guthlac, and the use of liturgical sources]
- Shaw, P. A., 'Uses of Wodan: The Development
of his Cult and of Medieval Literary Responses to It' (PhD dissertation, University of Leeds, 2002)
[brief discussion of the pagan gods referred to in 147 Pope Sixtus
II and 182 St Protus, Hyacinth]
- Cubitt, C., 'Universal and Local Saints in
Anglo-Saxon England', Local Saints and Local Churches in the Early Medieval
West, ed. A. Thacker and R. Sharpe (Oxford, 2002), pp. 423-53 [on insular
vs continental commemorations]
- Rauer, C., 'The Sources of the Old English
Martyrology', Anglo-Saxon England 32 (2003), 89-109 [includes
handlist of all traced sources]
- O'Leary, A., 'Apostolic Passiones
in Early Anglo-Saxon England', Apocryphal Texts and Traditions in Anglo-Saxon
England, ed. K. Powell and D. Scragg (Cambridge, 2003), pp. 103-119
[on the apostles, pp. 118-19]
- Scarfe Beckett, K., Anglo-Saxon Perceptions
of the Islamic World, Cambridge Studies in Anglo-Saxon England 33 (Cambridge,
2003), pp. 171, 180-1 [on 162 Bartholomew and 167 Augustine of
Hippo]
- Anlezark, D., 'Three Notes on the Old English
Meters of Boethius', Notes and Queries 51 (2004), 10-15
[on 46 The Second Day of Creation; suggests use of Martyrology
as a literary source for Meters]
- Franklin, C. V., The Latin Dossier of Anastasius the Persian: Hagiographic Translations and Transformations, Studies and Texts 147, Toronto, 2004, pp. 224-8 [disputes the use of BHL 412. Franklin also attributes the idea that Heraclius brought the relics back to Rome to a misreading of Bede’s Chronica maiora]
- Lapidge, M., 'Roman Martyrs and their Miracles in Anglo-Saxon England', Miracles and the Miraculous in Medieval Germanic and Latin Literature, ed. K. E. Olsen, A. Harbus and T. Hofstra (Leuven, 2004), pp. 95-120 [lists a number of passiones as having been used by the martyrologist]
- 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]
- Lapidge, M., 'Acca of Hexham and the Origin
of the Old English Martyrology', Analecta Bollandiana
123 (2005), 29-78 [suggests that the text is a translation of a Latin martyrology
composed by Acca, 731 x 740]
- Rusche, P. G., 'Isidore's Etymologiae and the Canterbury Aldhelm Scholia', Journal of English and Germanic Philology 104 (2005), 437-55 [briefly on the martyrologist's use of Aldhelm glosses, p. 444]
- Lapidge, M., The Anglo-Saxon Library (Oxford, 2006), pp. 46-8, 233-7 [includes
handlist of sources]
- Rusche, P. G., 'The Old English Martyrology and the Canterbury Aldhelm glosses', forthcoming [detailed discussion of textual parallels]
- Rauer, C., ‘Usage of the Old English Martyrology’, Foundations of Learning: The Transfer of Encyclopaedic Knowledge in the Early Middle Ages, ed. R. H. Bremmer jr. and K. Dekker, Medievalia Groningana ns 9 (Leuven, 2007), pp. 125-46
- Rauer, C., ‘Old English blanca in the Old English Martyrology’, Notes and Queries, 55 (2008), 396-9 [on 20 Pope Marcellus]
- Dolbeau, F., ‘Naissance des homéliaires et des passionnaires’, L’antiquité tardive dans les collections médiévales, ed. S. Gioanni and B. Grévin (Rome, 2008), pp. 13–35 [on the usage of legendaries]
- Incitti, I., 'Modelli agiografici femminili nel martirologio antico inglese' (MPhil dissertation, University of L'Aquila, 2008) [with particular focus on 226 Hild, 110 Æthelthryth, and 204 Æthelburh]
- Hall, T. N., ‘The Portents at Christ’s Birth in Vercelli Homilies V and VI: Some Analogues from Medieval Sermons and Biblical Commentaries’, New Readings in the Vercelli Book, ed. S. Zacher and A. Orchard (Toronto, 2009), pp. 62-97 [on 1 The Birth of Christ]
2010-
- Rauer, C., 'Pelagia's Cloak in the Old English Martyrology', Notes and Queries 57 (2010), 3-6
- 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]
- Breeze, A., 'Locating Ludica in The Old English Martyrology', Notes and Queries 57 (2010), 168
- Dekker, K., ‘Eucherius of Lyons in Anglo-Saxon England: The Continental Connections’, Practice in Learning: The Transfer of Encyclopaedic Knowledge in the Early Middle Ages, Mediaevalia Groningana 16 (Leuven, 2010), pp. 147-73 [on 191 Maurice and the Theban Legion]
- Smyth, M., 'The Seventh-Century Hiberno-Latin Treatise Liber de ordine creaturarum: A Translation', Journal of Medieval Latin 21 (2011), 137-222 [the martyrologist's usage of the De ordine creaturarum, pp. 156-7]
- 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]
- Alcamesi, F., 'The Old English Entries in the First Corpus Glossary (CCCC 144, ff.1r-3v)', Rethinking and Recontextualizing Glosses: New Perspectives in the Study of Late Anglo-Saxon Glossography, ed. P. Lendinara, L. Lazzari and C. Di Sciacca, Textes et études du moyen âge 54 (Porto: Fédération international des Instituts d’études médiévales, 2011), pp. 509-40, at 517 [briefly on 48 The Third Day of Creation]
- Shaw, P. A., Pagan Goddesses in the Early Germanic World: Eostre, Hreda and the Cult of Matrons (London, 2011), pp. 82-3 [on Hreðmonað, 36b The Beginning of March, 58a The End of March]
- Ivanov, S., 'On the Later Development of the Legend of Portents at Christ's Birth', Cambrian Medieval Celtic Studies 63 (2012), 71-89 [discussion of literary background behind portents described in 1 The Birth of Christ]
- Rauer, C., ‘Errors and Textual Problems in the Old English Martyrology’, Neophilologus 97 (2013), 147-64
- Rauer, C., ‘Female Hagiography in the Old English Martyrology’, Writing Women Saints in Anglo-Saxon England, ed. P. E. Szarmach (Toronto, 2013), pp. 13-29
- Rauer, C., ed., The Old English Martyrology: Edition, Translation and Commentary, Anglo-Saxon Texts 10 (Cambridge, 2013)
- 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]
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