Medieval Feast Day Sources/Further Reading
Primary Sources
Ekkehard IV. Fortune and misfortune at Saint Gall = Casus Sancti Galli. Translated by Emily Albu and Natalia Lozovsky. of Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2021.
Heisterbach, Caesarius of, Ronald E. Pepin, and Hugh Feiss. The Dialogue on Miracles. Volume 1. Collegeville, MN: Cistercian Publications, Liturgical Press, 2023.
Kardong, Terrence G., OSB. Benedict's Rule: A Translation and Commentary. Liturgical Press, 1996. https://muse.jhu.edu/book/46804.
Preest, David. “GEOFFREY DE GORRON.” In The Deeds of the Abbots of St Albans: Gesta Abbatum Monasterii Sancti Albani, edited by James G. Clark, 158–97. Boydell & Brewer, 2019. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv36rk0wq.23.
Preest, David. “LEOFRIC.” In The Deeds of the Abbots of St Albans: Gesta Abbatum Monasterii Sancti Albani, edited by James G. Clark, 87–91. Boydell & Brewer, 2019. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv36rk0wq.17.
Preest, David. “PAUL OF CAEN.” In The Deeds of the Abbots of St Albans: Gesta Abbatum Monasterii Sancti Albani, edited by James G. Clark, 122–43. Boydell & Brewer, 2019. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv36rk0wq.21.
Preest, David. “RICHARD D’AUBIGNY.” In The Deeds of the Abbots of St Albans: Gesta Abbatum Monasterii Sancti Albani, edited by James G. Clark, 144–57. Boydell & Brewer, 2019. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv36rk0wq.22.
Suger, Abbot. Abbot Suger on the Abbey Church of St. Denis and Its Art Treasures: Second Edition. Edited by Gerda Panofsky-Soergel and Erwin Panofsky. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691206950.
Suso, Henry. The Life of the Servant. Translated by James M. Clark. London: James Clarke & Co Ltd., 1952.
Wales, Gerald of. “Vision of Britain: Gerald of Wales: Book I, Ch. 2: Hay and Brecheinia.” Vision of Britain | Gerald of Wales | Book I, Ch. 2: Hay and Brecheinia. Accessed September 9, 2025. https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/travellers/Cambrensis_Tour/4.
Secondary Sources
“Ælfheah of Canterbury.” Wikipedia, September 9, 2025. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ælfheah_of_Canterbury.
“Holy Days: View Documents.” University of Nottingham. Accessed September 12, 2025. https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/manuscriptsandspecialcollections/learning/medievalwomen/theme12/documents.aspx.
“On-Line Calendar of Saints Days.” On-line Calendar of Saints Days - Home Page. Accessed September 5, 2025. https://medievalist.net/calendar/home.htm.
Bryda., Gregory C. “The Spiritual Maypole.” Yale University Press, May 7, 2025. https://yalebooks.yale.edu/2025/05/07/the-spiritual-maypole/.
Boynton, Susan. “‘The Devil Made Me Do It’: Demonic Intervention in the Medieval Monastic Liturgy.” In European Religious Cultures: Essays Offered to Christopher Brooke on the Occasion of His Eightieth Birthday, edited by Miri Rubin, NED-New edition., 87–104. University of London Press, 2020. http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv13qfvf1.11.
Cheney, C. R., and Michael Jones. A Handbook of Dates for Students of British History. 2nd ed. Cambridge, U.K: Cambridge University Press, 2004.
Cheney, C R. “Rules for the Observance of Feast-Days in Medieval England.” Historical Research: The Bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research 34, no. 90 (1961): 117–47. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2281.1961.tb02090.x.
Corèdon, Christopher, and Ann Williams. A Dictionary of Medieval Terms and Phrases, Boydell & Brewer, 2005.
Crow, Jason. A new material interpretation of twelfth-century architecture: Reconstructing The abbey of saint-denis. of Knowledge Communities. Amsterdam University Press, 2024.
Harvey, Barbara. “Work and Festa Ferianda in Medieval England.” The Journal of Ecclesiastical History 23, no. 4 (1972): 289–308. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022046900056384.
Hellsten, Laura. 2022. "The Liminal Space of Medieval Dance Practices: The Case of St. Eluned’s Feast Day" Arts 11, no. 4: 79. https://doi.org/10.3390/arts11040079
Henisch, Bridget Ann. The Medieval Calendar Year. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2002.
Hodgman , Charlotte. “The Medieval Church Calendar: A Guide to the Holy Days.” HistoryExtra, May 26, 2025. https://www.historyextra.com/period/medieval/medieval-church-calendar-holy-days-advent-lent-feast/.
Holweck, Frederick. "Ecclesiastical Feasts." The Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 6. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1909.http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06021b.htm.
Kirkland, Justin Scott. “Failing to Observe Holy Days: The Evaluation of Defense Arguments in Late Medieval English Ecclesiastical Courts.” Tijdschrift Voor Rechtsgeschiedenis 88, no. 1–2 (2020): 122–48. https://doi.org/10.1163/15718190-00880A02.
Kirkland, Justin Scott. “From Rite to Right: How Holy Days Became a Natural Right in Medieval England,” 2013. (Thesis)
Laumonier, Lucie. “Medieval Calendars and the Labours of the Months.” Medievalists.net, July 16, 2022. https://www.medievalists.net/2022/07/medieval-calendars-labours-months/.
Orme, Nicholas. Exeter Cathedral: The First Thousand Years, 400-1550. Exeter England: Impress, 2009.
Orme, Nicholas. Going To Church in Medieval England. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2022.
Smoller, Laura A., '‘Popular’ Religious Culture(s)', in John H. Arnold (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Christianity (2014; online edn, Oxford Academic, 2 Oct. 2014), https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199582136.013.021