Hagiography and the History of Latin Christendom, 500-1500 9004417265, 9789004417267
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Table of contents :
Half Title
Series Information
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Acknowledgments
Illustrations
Abbreviations
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
Part 1 Creating and Transmitting Texts
Chapter 1 Constructing the Text: a Comparative Study of Two Saints’ Lives Written c.1200
Creating the Saint
Documenting the Community
Conclusion
Further Reading
Chapter 2 From “Real Life” to Saint’s Life: Biography and Hagiography in the Vitae of Bernardino of Siena and Vincent Ferrer
Initial Image-Making: from the Hour of Death until the Moment of Canonization
After Canonization: Writing the Life of a New Saint
Saints’ Lives in Conversation
Further Reading
Chapter 3 Understanding Pictorial Hagiography (with Comments on the Illustrated Life of Wandrille)
Effects and Reception of Hagiographical Narrative
Pictorial Hagiography as Narrative Version
Narrative Issues: Time and Truth in Hagiography
Specific Issues in Pictorial Hagiograpy
Pictures, Edification and Imitation—Body and Gesture
A Case Study: the Libellus of Wandrille
The Historical Wandrille and His Monastery
The Libellus and Its Versions of Wandrille
The Life of Gerald of Aurillac—an Intertextual Comparison
The Wandrille Illustrations and Their Depiction of a Peaceful Lord
Further Reading
Chapter 4 Saints’ Lives on the Move: the Circulation of Apostolic Legends
Carolingian Circulation
Manuscripts and the Circulation of Apostolic Legends after c.1100
Beyond Manuscripts—Implicit Circulation
Conlcusion
Further Reading
Chapter 5 Thirteenth-Century Legendae Novae and the Preaching Orders: a Communication System
Characteristics of the Literary Genre
Contents
Exterior Form
Absence of Definite Demarcation between Various Authors and Works
Use of Secretaries
A Communication System
The Originators of the Genre
Iohannes de Mailliaco (Jean de Mailly): Abbreviatio in Gestis Sanctorum
Bartholomeus Tridentinus (Bartholomew of Trent): Liber Epilogorum in Gestis Sanctorum
The Crowning Work of the Genre: the Legenda aurea of Jacobus de Voragine
Further Reading
Part 2 Constructing Religious Life, History and the Self
Chapter 6 Vita Vel Regula: Multifunctional Hagiography in the Early Middle Ages
Two Troublesome Saints
Vita Vel Regula
A Simple-Minded Saint
The Double Life of Gallus
Conclusion: So Many Saints—So Little Time49
Further Reading
Chapter 7 Bishops, Monks and Priests: Defining Religious Institutions by Writing and Rewriting Saints’ Lives (Francia, 6th–11th Centuries)
The Changing Episcopal Model
Hagiography and Monastic Reform in the First Half of the Ninth Century
Lives of Saintly Priests (9th–10th Centuries)
Further Reading
Chapter 8 Singing the Lives of the Saints: Hagiographical-Historical Intersections in Music and Worship
Saintly Attributes and Civic Meaning in the Musical Veneration of St John the Evangelist
Intersecting Narratives in the Liturgy of St Lambert’s Martyrdom
Hagiographical-Historical Intersections in Chants for the Translation of St Lambert
Musical Synthesis of Hagiography and History
Further Reading
Chapter 9 “Impressed by Their Stamp”: Hagiography and the Cultivation of the Self
Further Reading
Part 3 Power and Violence
Chapter 10 Gaul’s Insiders: Hagiography and Entitlement
The Conduct of the Court: Valuable Actions in Hagiography
Not-Narrated Action: Hagiographical Devaluation
Conclusion
Further Reading
Chapter 11 St Gerald of Aurillac, Sex and Violence in Medieval Hagiography
Further Reading
Chapter 12 The Unconvincing Martyrdom of William Longsword, Norman Count of Rouen (r. 928–42)
The Viking Scourge
Arnulf’s Campaign
The Planctus
Dudo’s Historia Normannorum
Further Reading
Chapter 13 Hagiography, Relics and Secular Politics in Western Europe, 6th–13th Centuries
The Kingdoms of the Early Middle Ages
Concentration of Relics in the Centres of Power of the New Dynasties
Relics as Emblems of Transfer of Power
Legitimisation of Royal Power
Relics and Territorial Power
The Civic Cult of Relics
Conclusion
Further Reading
Part 4 Urban Life and the Natural World
Chapter 14 Hagiography and Inter-Urban Rivalry:: the Vita of St Eucharius, First Bishop of Trier, and Its Use in “Political” Quarrels during the Tenth Century
The Vita of Eucharius: the Date of Its Redaction and Its Contents
The Vita Eucharii: the Hagiographer and His Method
The Motivation of Eucharius’s Hagiographer
The Use of the Vita of Eucharius during the First Half of the Tenth Century
The Role of the Vita of Eucharius in Obtaining the Primacy
Conclusion
Further Reading
Chapter 15 Hagiography and Urban Life: Evidence from Southern Italy
Urban Aspirations
Urban Society, Mobility and Faction
Urban Piety and Christian Thinking about the City
Further Reading
Chapter 16 Hagiography and the Exotic: “Foreign Saints” in High Medieval Lucca
Lucca and Its Crucifix
Davino and the Cult of Peregrinatio
Creating a Foreign Ideal: Further Saints’ Lives
Conclusion
Further Reading
Chapter 17 Environmental History and Hagiography
Environmental History and Religion
Cuthbert and Lindisfarne
The Lives of Aldegund
St Foy and Conques
Further Reading
Part 5 Gender, Health and Beauty
Chapter 18 Hagiography, Gender, and the Power of Social Norms
Power and Social Networks in Medieval Hagiography
Kinship and Marriage: the Twelfth- and Thirteenth-Century Context
Hagiographical Transformations of Kinship and Gender
Hagiographical Gender and Kinship in Literary Perspective
Conclusion
Further Reading
Chapter 19 A King, Not a Servant: the Prose Life of St Katherine of Alexandria and Ideologies of Masculinity in Late Medieval England
Further Reading
Chapter 20 Health, Healing, and Salvation: Hagiography as a Source for Medieval Healthcare
Further Reading
Chapter 21 The Beautiful Dead: Materiality, Resurrection and the Aesthetics of Holy Corpses
Talking Clothes?
The Pledge of Cuthbert’s Corpse
A Kind of Shadow
Solid Saints
Conclusion: in Praise of Doubt
Further Reading
Hagiography Index
