Early Medieval Resources for Britain, Ireland, and Brittany

 

St. Hild

Princess of Deira, Abbess of Whitby

Feast Day: November 17

Born c. 614 Died 680

Daughter of Hereric of Deira and Breguswitha

 

Excerpts of Translations on St. Hild

  • Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People
  • Stephanus of Ripon's Life of Wilfrid
  • The Deiran Royal Family

     

    Bibliography

    Abels, Richard. (1983) 'The Council of Whitby: A Study in Early Anglo-Saxon Politics' Journal of British Studies 23(1): 1-25.

    Attwater, Donald (1983) Penguin Dictionary of Saints. 3rd Edition.

    Bede Ecclesiatical History of the English People.(1994) Edited by Judith McClure adn Roger Collins. Oxford University Press.

    Cramp, Rosemary (1993) "A Reconsideration of the Monastic Site of Whitby" p. 64-73 in The Age of Migrating Ideas: Early Medieval Art in Northern Britain and Ireland Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Insular Art held in the National Museums of Scotland in Edinburgh, 3-6 January 1991. R. Michael Spearman and John Higgett, editors. Edinburgh: National Museums of Scotland and Stroud: Alan Sutton Publishing.

    Cross, J. E. (1979) 'A Lost Life of Hild of Whitby: the Evidence of the Old English Martyrology' The Early Middle Ages: Acta Vol. VI, p. 21-43.

    Eddius Stephanus Life of Wilfred. In: The Age of Bede, (1988) David Farmer Editor.

    Farmer, D.H. (1997) Oxford Dictionary of Saints 4th edition. Oxford University Press.

    Fell, Christine E. (1981) 'Hild, Abbess of Streonæshlach', p. 76-99; In: Hagiography and Medieval Literature: A Symposium Odense University Press.

    Hollis, Stephanie (1992) Anglo-Saxon Women in the Church: Sharing a Common Fate Boydell Press.

    Karkov, Catherine E. (1999) "Whitby, Jarrow, and the Commemoriation of Death in Northumbria" pp. 126-135 in Northumbria's Golden Age. Edited by Jane Hawkes and Susan Mills. Sutton Publishing.

    Leyser, Henrietta (1995) Medieval Women: A Social History of Women in England 450-1500  [New York] St. Martin's Press.

    Neuman de Vegvar, Carol (1996) "Saints and Companions to Saints: Anglo-Saxon Royal Women Monastics in Context" p. 51-93 in Holy Men and Holy Women: Old English Prose Saints' Lives and Their Contexts Edited by Paul E. Szarmach. Albany: State University of New York Press.

    Nicolson, Joan. (1978) "Feminae Gloriosae: Women in the Age of Bede", p. 15-29 in Medieval Women Derek Baker, Editor. Oxford: Blackwell.

    Rollason, D. W. (1996) "Hagiography and Politics in Early Northumbria" p. 95-114 in Holy Men and Holy Women: Old English Prose Saints' Lives and Their Contexts Paul E. Szarmach, editor. Alabany: State University of New York Press.

    Williams, A. , Smyth, A. and Kirby, D.P. (1991) A Biographical Dictionary of Dark Age Britain: England, Scotland, and Wales c500-c1050. London: Seaby Publishers