These books are evidence of the changing technology of their day, just as Facebook, Twitter and Instagram are evidence of that today.” The first edition of the “Martyrs Mirror” was published in 1660 ...

The term ‘competitive martyrologies’ was coined by the Holocaust scholar Michael Shafir (2007) to describe the emergence of counter-memories that oppose the political culture of Holocaust remembrance, ...

ALEXANDRA WALSHAM, HISTORY, MEMORY, AND THE ENGLISH REFORMATION, The Historical Journal, Vol. 55, No. 4 (DECEMBER 2012), pp. 899-938 ...

The unique and purposefully placed narratives in the Dunfermline "Vita" of St. Margaret of Scotland articulate the hereditary claim of the kings of Scotland to a Scoto-Northumbrian realm by ...

Rauer’s research interests include Old English language and literature, Insular Latin literature, Old Norse literature; the literary history of Anglo-Saxon England, particularly non-English influences ...

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She is just a name in martyrologies, and even those are late. The oldest surviving mention of Margaret is in the work of the monk Rabanus in the 9th century, long after her traditional date of ...

A representative of the German Catholic Bishops’ Conference has challenged African Church leaders to initiate the canonization processes for German martyrs.

There was more than one St. Valentine While at least three St. Valentines are mentioned in early martyrologies, most sources point to one as the holiday's patron saint. Valentine was a priest in ...

But buried deep in the martyrologies of the day is a little-known feast marking Sant’Aproniano, sometimes referred to as “carnifex,” the Latin word for “butcher” or “slaughterer,” which was applied to ...

Martyrs and martyrologies : papers read at the 1992 Summer Meeting and the 1993 Winter Meeting of the Ecclesiastical History Society by Ecclesiastical History Society. Summer Meeting (1992 : ...