Comments to: David Woods
Last Updated: April 2008

Primary Sources

• Brooks, E.W. "The Acts of St. George" Le Muséon 38 (1925), 67-115
• Browne, G.M. The Old Nubian Martyrdom of St. George (Corpus Scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium 575: Louvain, 1998)
• Budge, E.A.W. The Martyrdom and Miracles of St. George of Cappadocia (London, 1888)
• Budge, E.A.W. George of Lydda, the Patron Saint of England. A Study of the Cultus of St. George in Ethiopia (London, 1930)
• Canart, P. "La collection hagiographique palimpseste du Palatinus Graecus 205 et la Passion de S. Georges BHG 670g", Analecta Bollandiana 100 (1982), 87-109
• Coquin, R.-G. "Complément aux Miracles de Saint Georges", Bulletin de la Société d'archéologie copte 28 (1986-89), 51-73
• Cumont, F. "La Plus Ancienne Légende de saint Georges", Revue d'Histoire des Religions 114 (1936), 5-51
• Festugière, A.J. Sainte Thècle, saints Côme et Damien, saints Cyr et Jean, saint Georges (Paris, 1971)
• Frend, W.H.C. "A Fragment of the Acta Sancti Georgii from Q'asr Ibrim (Egyptian Nubia)", Analecta Bollandiana 100 (1982), 79-86
• Garitte, G. "Le panégyrique de S. Georges attribué a Constantin s'Assiout", Le Muséon 67 (1954), 271-77
• Krumbacher, K. Der heilige Georg in der griechischen Überlieferung (Munich, 1911)
• Noret, J. "Deux avatars du panégyrique de S. Georges par Arcadius de Chypre", Analecta Bollandiana 92 (1974), 165-70
• Peeters, P. "Une Passion arménienne de S. Georges", Analecta Bollandiana 28 (1910), 249-71

Academic Secondary Literature on Early and Medieval Cult

• Astruc, C. "S. Georges à Beyrouth", Analecta Bollandiana 77 (1959), 54-62
• Bengston, J. "Saint George and the Formation of English Nationalism", Journal of Medieval and Early Medieval Studies 27 (1997), 317-40
• Brownrigg, R.B. The Collegiate Church of St. George the Martyr Jerusalem (London, 1946)
• Cantera Montenegro, J. "El dragón de la leyenda de San Jorge", Archivo español de arte 247 (1989), 331-44
• Dempsey, C. "St. George the Indigenous Foreigner in Kerala Christianity", Religion 28 (1998), 171
• Didi-Huberman, G., Gabretta, R., and Morgaine, M. Saint Georges et le dragon (Paris, 1994)
• Esche-Braunfels, S. Sankt George: Legende, Verehrung, Symbol (Munich, 1976)
• Fox, D.S., Saint George with Three Faces (Windsor Forest, 1983)
• Frend, W.H.C. "Fragments of a Version of the Acta Georgii from Q'asr Ibrim", Jahrbuch für Antike und Christentum 32 (1989), 89-104
• Frend, W.H.C. "Martyrdom in East and West: the Saga of St. George of Nobatia and England", in D. Wood (ed.) Martyrs and Martyrologies: Studies in Church History 30 (Oxford, 1993), 47-56
• Haddad, H.S. ""Georgic" Cults and Saints of the Levant", Numen 16 (1969), 21-39
• Hill, J. "Aelfric, Gelasius, and St. George", Mediaevalia 11 (1985), 1-17
• Howell, D. "St. George as Intercessor", Byzantion 39 (1969), 123-
• Klivinyi, E. Der hl. Georg a Legende, Kunst, und religiöser Verehrung (Graz, 1959)
• Küppers, L. Der hl. Georg (Ecklinghausen, 1964)
• Matson, S.A. St. George and the Dragon: A World-Wide Legend Localised (London, 1885)
• Mazal, O. "Zur hagiographischen berlieferung und zur Ikonographie des heiligen Georg im byzantinischen Bereich", Codices manuscripti 15 (1990), 101-36
• Playne, B. St. George for Ethiopia (London, 1954)
• Riches, S. St. George: Hero, Martyr, and Myth (Stroud, 2000)
• Setton, K.M. "Saint George's Head", Speculum 48 (1973), 1-12
• Six, V. "Der heilige Georg und das Mädchen: Ein orientalisches Motiv und sein Weg nach Äthiopien", Afrika und Übersee 77 (1994), 9-30
• Von Taube, O. Die Darstellungen des hl. Georg in der italienischen Kunst (Jena, 1910)
• Walter, C. "The Origins of the Cult of St. George", Revue des Études Byzantines 53 (1995), 295-326
• Woods, D. "Pope Zacharias (741-52) and the Head of St. George", ARAM Periodical 20 (2008), 163-80

The Continued Cultural Influence of the Cult of St. George in the Modern Age

• Simpson, R. "St. George and the Pendragon", in R. Utz and T. Shippey (eds.), Medievalism in the Modern World (Turnhout, 1998), 131-53

Art History

• Anon. Icônes de Saint-Georges des Grecs et de la collection de'l Institut (Hellenikon Institouton Vyzantinion kai Metavyzantinon Spoudon) (Venice, 1962)
• Anon. San Giorgio e la principessa di Cosmè Tura: Dipinti restaurati per l'officina ferrarese (Bologna, 1985)
• Anon. San Giorgio tra Ferrara e Praga: un santo guerriero: dalle collezioni estensi a Konopiste (Ferrara, 1991)
• Anon. St. George, Ruskin, and the Dragon (Exhibition Catalogue) (Sheffield, 1992)
• Blass-Simmen, B. Sankt Georg - Drachenkampf in der Renaissance: Carpaccio, Raffael, Leonardo (Berlin, 1991)
• Decker, A.E. The Historiated Relief Icon of St. George in the National Art Museum, Kiev(MA at University of Maryland, 1997)
• Dorsch, K. Georgszyklen des Mittelalters: ikongraphische Studie zu mehrzenigen Darstellungen der Vita des hl. Georg in der abendländischen Kunst unter Einbeziehung von Einzelszenen des Martyriums (Frankfurt, 1983)
• Hublow, K. The Working of Christ in Man : The Thousand-year-old Frescoes in the Church of St. George on the Island of Reichenau (Edinburgh, 1979)
• Martin, J.F. "Two Paintings from Burne-Jones's "St. George Series" Rediscovered", Burlington Magazine 139 (1997), 330
• Ovcarov, N. "Sur l'iconographie de St. Georges aux XIe-XIIe siècles", Byzantinoslavica 52 (1991), 121-129
• Riches, S. "The Lost St George Cycle of St. George’s Church, Stamford: an examination of iconography and context", in C. Richmond and E. Scarff (eds.), St George’s Chapel, Windsor, in the late Middle Ages (Windsor, 2001), 135-50
• Riches, S. "The Imagery of the Virgin Mary and St. George in the Stalls of St George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle", in L. Keen and E. Scarff (eds.), Windsor. Medieval Archaeology, Art and Architecture of the Thames Valley (London, 2002), 146-54
• Veeder, M. DeWitt St. George and the Dragon in Medieval Spanish Art (MA at New York University, 1938)
• Volbach, W.F. La bandiera di San Giorgio (Rome, 1936)

Popular, Devotional, and Children's Literature

• Bennett, R. The Real St. George: A Play in One Act (Bickley, Kent, 1942)
• Caper, E. St. George and the Dragon: A Puppet Play (Detroit, 1937)
• Carpenter, E. St. George and the Dragon: A Play in Three Acts for Children (London, 1908)
• Cooney, A. The Story of Saint George: The Life and Legend of England's Patron Saint (Cheltenham, 1999)
• Hodges, M. & Hyman, T.S. (ill.), Saint George and the Dragon (Boston, MA, 1990)
• Hronas, G. The Life of the Great Martyr St. George (Minneapolis, 1997)
• John, D. St. George and the Dragon (London, 1961)
• Johnson, C. & Smith, H.L. (ill.) St. George and the Dragon (New York, 1920)
• Knox, R.A. Saint George the Martyr, Patron of the Kingdom: A Sermon Preached in the Church of St. Silas the Martyr, Kentish Town, on the Eve of the Feast of St. George, 1915 (London, 1915)
• McCaughrean, G.& Palin, N. (ill.) Saint George and the Dragon (Oxford, 2000)
• Mee, W. A True Account of the Tragic History of St. George and the Dragon (Richmond, Surrey, 1983)
• Pepler, H.D.C. St. George and the Dragon: A One Act Play (London, 1932)
• Riches, S. St. George: Hero, Martyr and Myth (Stroud, 2000)
• Riches, S. ""Seynt george...On whom alle englond hath byleve": St George as a patron saint in late medieval England", History Today 50 (2000), 46-51
• Rose, E. St. George and the Fiery Dragon (London, 1963)
• Ryan, J. A Bad Year for Dragons: The Legend of St. George (London, 1986)
• Stace, C. St. George: Patron Saint of England (London, 2002)