Here are some references to editions and translations, core research in the field, and regularly updated new publications focused on hagiography, saints’ cults, and other relevant material in alphabetical order by author. A work in progress 🙂
Editions and Translations of Saints’ Lives and Geneaologies
Irish saints:
Bieler, Ludwig. Four Latin lives of St. Patrick: Colgan’s Vita secunda, quarta, tertia and quinta. Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1971.
Bieler, Ludwig. The Patrician texts in the Book of Armagh. Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1979.
Heist, W. W. Vitae sanctorum Hiberniae: ex codice olim Salmanticensi, nunc Bruxellensi. Lives of the saints of Ireland, from the Salamanca manuscript now of Brussels. Brussels: Société des Bollandistes, 1965.
Plummer, Charles. Vitae sanctorum Hiberniae, partim hactenus ineditae, 2 vols, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1910.
Plummer, Charles. Miscellanea hagiographica Hibernica: vitae adhuc ineditae sanctorum Mac Creiche, Naile, Cranat. Brussels: Société des Bollandistes, 1925.
Plummer, Charles. Bethada náem nÉrenn: Lives of Irish saints, 2 vols, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1922.
Saints in Ireland
Saints in Wales
Reynolds, Amy. “St. Tysilio in Medieval Welsh and Breton Hagiography.” Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium 40 (2020): 376–393.
Saints in Brittany
Brett, Caroline. “St Kenelm, St Melor and Anglo-Breton contact from the tenth to the twelfth centuries.” Anglo-Saxon England 47 (2018): 247–273.