REFERENCES

The following references were supplied by the authors who submitted to our zine.

Crossing The Boundaries: An Exploration of Anglo-Saxon Superstition, by Sophia Adamowicz

The author would like to thank Dr Jenny Neville for her reading suggestions.

Primary Sources:

Ælfric. ‘The Passion of St. Bartholomew the Apostle’ in Homilies of Ælfric. Edited and Translated by Benjamin Thorpe (1844). London: Ælfric Society. Available here.

Anon. Old English Penitential (Oxford, Bodleian Library, Laud Misc. 482). Edited by A. J. Frantzen (2003-2023), The Anglo-Saxon Penitentials: A Cultural Database. Available here.

Anon. Scriftboc (Oxford, Bodleian Library, Junius 121). Edited by A. J. Frantzen (2003-2023), The Anglo-Saxon Penitentials: A Cultural Database. Available here.

Anon. Old English Handbook (Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, 201). Edited by A. J. Frantzen (2003-2023), The Anglo-Saxon Penitentials: A Cultural Database. Available here.

Anon. The Whitby Life of Gregory the Great. Translated by T. Leo Almond (1904). Downside Review 23(NS4), pp.15-29. Extracts available here.

Bede:
The Ecclesiastical History of the English People. Edited by Judith McClure and Roger Collins (1994; reissued 2008). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Historiam ecclesiasticam gentis Anglorum. Edited by Charles Plummer (1896). Available here.

Burchard of Worms. Corrector. Edited by John Shinners (1997; repr. 1999) in Medieval Popular Religion, 1000-1500: A Reader. Peterborough, Ont.: Broadview Press, pp. 441-56.

Council of Ancyra. Canons. Edited by Philip Schaff and Henry Wace (1900) in Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Second Series 14.  Buffalo, NY: Christian Literature Publishing Co. Revised and edited for New Advent by Kevin Knight (2021). Available here.

Theodore. Penitential. Edited by Patrick Geary (2016) in Readings in Medieval History, Volume I: The Early Middle Ages. Fifth edition. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. Available here.

Secondary Sources:

Caciola, N. (1996) ‘Wraiths, Revenants and Ritual in Medieval Culture’, Past & Present 152, pp. 3-45.

Dunn, M. (2009) The Christianization of the Anglo-Saxons, c. 597-700: Discourses of Life, Death and Afterlife. London: Continuum.

Filotas, B. (2005) Pagan Survivals, Superstitions and Popular Cultures. Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies.

Foxhall Forbes, H. (2016) Heaven and Earth in Anglo-Saxon England: Theology and Society in an Age of Faith. London; New York: Routledge.

Jolly, K. L. (1996) Popular Religion in Late Anglo-Saxon England: Elf Charms in Context. Chapel Hill; London: The University of North Carolina Press.

Kesling, E. (2020) Medical Texts in Anglo-Saxon Literary Culture. Cambridge: D.S. Brewer.

Kieckhefer, R. (1994) ‘The Specific Rationality of Medieval Magic’, The American Historical Review 99(3), pp. 813-36.

Meaney, A.L. (1989) ‘Women, Witchcraft and Magic in Anglo-Saxon England’, Superstition and Popular Medicine in Anglo-Saxon England. Edited by D.G. Scragg. Manchester: Manchester Centre for Anglo-Saxon Studies, pp. 9-40.

Page, R.I. (1995) ‘Anglo-Saxon Paganism: The Evidence of Bede’, Pagans and Christians: The Interplay Between Christian Latin and Traditional Germanic Cultures in Early Medieval Europe: Proceedings of the Second Germania Latina Conference held at the University of Groningen, May 1992. Edited by T. Hofstra, L.A.J.R. Houwen and A.A. MacDonald, Germania Latina II. Egbert Forsten: Groningen. 

Vyse, S. (2020) Superstition: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

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