Comments to: David Woods
Last Updated: June 2003

• the history of Christian participation within the Roman army;
• the growth of the cult of military martyrs in general.

Please refer to the relevant martyr in the list of martyrs on the main page for works which focus on the cult of that martyr alone. It is important to consult a list of standard abbreviations for the most common reference works before consulting any of the more specialised bibliographies.

• Anon. Warrior Saints: Catalogue of an Exhibition Held December 1972-February 1973 (London, 1972)
• Brennan, P. "Military Images in Hagiography" in G. Clarke et al. (eds.), Reading the Past in Late Antiquity (Rushcutters Bay, 1990)
• Brock, P. The Military Question in the Early Church: A Selected Bibliography of a Century's Scholarship (Toronto, 1988)
• Burgess, R. "The Date of the Persecution of Christians in the Army", Journal of Theological Studies 47 (1996), 157-58
• Burns, J.P., Daly, R.J., and Helgeland, J. Christians and the Military: The Early Experience (London, 1987)
• Butturini, E. La non violenza nel cristianesimo dei primi secoli (Turin, 1979)
• Cadoux, C. The Early Christian Attitude to War (London, 1919)
• Crescenti, G. Obiettori di coscienza e martiri militari nei primi cinque secoli del cristianesimo (Palermo, 1966)
• Delehaye, H. Les Légendes Grecques des Saintes Militaires (Paris, 1909)
• Delehaye, H. "Le refus de servir et l'Église primitive", in his Mélanges d'Hagiographie Grecque et Latine (Brussels, 1966)
• Delehaye, H. "La persécution dans l'armée primitive", in his Mélanges d'Hagiographie Grecque et Latine (Brussels, 1966)
• Fontaine, J. "Le culte des martyrs militaires et son expression poétique au IVè siècle: l'idéal évangélique de la non-violence dans le christianisme théodosien", Augustinianum 20 (1980), 141-171
• Harnack, A. The Christian Religion and the Military in the First Three Centuries (Philadelphia, 1980: a translation by D.M. Gracie of the original German edition of 1905)
• Helgeland, J. "Christians and the Roman Army from Marcus Aurelius to Constantine", Aufstieg und Niedergang der römischen Welt II.23.1 (1979), 724-834
• Hornus, J.-M. It is Not Lawful for Me to Fight (Scottdale,1980)
• Lewis, S. "The Iconography of the Coptic Horseman in Byzantine Egypt", Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt 10 (1973), 27-63
• Muhlberger, S. "War, Warlords, and Christian Historians from the Fifth to the Seventh Century", in A.C. Murray (ed.), After Rome's Fall: Narrators and Sources of Early Medieval History (Toronto, 1998), 83-98
• Odahl, C. Constantine and the Militarization of Christianity: A Contribution to the Study of Christian Attitudes towards War and Military Service. Dissertation presented at the University of California, San Diego in 1976 (UMI 7713688)
• Orselli, A.M. Santità militare e culto dei santi militari nell' impero dei romani (secoli VI-X) (Bologna, 1993)
• Raineri, O. Santi guerrieri a cavallo: tele etiopische (Clusone, 1996)
• Ubiña, J.F.Cristianos y militares. La iglesia antigua ante el ejército y la guerra (Granada, 2000)
• Swift, L.J. The Early Fathers on War and Military Service (Wilmington, 1983)
• Walter, C. "The Thracian Horseman: Ancestor of the Warrior Saints ?", Byzantinische Forschungen 14 (1989), 657-73
• Walter, C. The Warrior Saints in Byzantine Art and Tradition (Aldershot, 2003)
• Webster, A.F.C. "Varieties of Christian Military Saints: From Martyrs under Caesar to Warrior Princes", St. Vladimir's Theological Quarterly 24 (1980), 3-36
• Whitby, M. "Deus Nobiscum: Christianity, Warfare, and Morale in Late Antiquity", in M. Austin, J. Harries, and C. Smith (eds.), Modus Operandi: Essays in Honour of Geoffrey Rickman (London, 1998), 191-208