Hagiography and the History of Latin Christendom, 500-1500

Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-90-04-41726-7
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 4, 484 Seiten, Format (B × H): 168 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 816 g

Reihe: Reading Medieval Sources

Hagiography and the History of Latin Christendom, 500–1500 shows the historical value of texts celebrating saints—both the most abundant medieval source material and among the most difficult to use. Hagiographical sources present many challenges: they are usually anonymous, often hard to date, full of topoi, and unstable. Moreover, they are generally not what we would consider factually accurate. The volume’s twenty-one contributions draw on a range of disciplines and employ a variety of innovative methods to address these challenges and reach new discoveries about the medieval world that extend well beyond the study of sanctity. They show the rich potential of hagiography to enhance our knowledge of that world, and some of the ways to unlock it.

Contributors are Ellen Arnold, Helen Birkett, Edina Bozoky, Emma Campbell, Adrian Cornell du Houx, David Defries, Albrecht Diem, Cynthia Hahn, Samantha Kahn Herrick, J.K. Kitchen, Jamie Kreiner, Klaus Krönert, Mathew Kuefler, Katherine J. Lewis, Giovanni Paolo Maggioni, Charles Mériaux, Paul Oldfield, Sara Ritchey, Catherine Saucier, Laura Ackerman Smoller, and Ineke van ‘t Spijker.

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Herrick, Samantha Kahn

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Kirchengeschichte Hagiographie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

List of Illustrations

List of Abbreviations

Notes on Contributors

Introduction

Samantha Kahn Herrick

Part 1

Creating and Transmitting Texts

1 Constructing the Text: a Comparative Study of Two Saints’ Lives Written c.1200

Helen Birkett

2 From “Real Life” to Saint’s Life: Biography and Hagiography in the Vitae of Bernardino of Siena and Vincent Ferrer

Laura Ackerman Smoller

3 Understanding Pictorial Hagiography (with Comments on the Illustrated Life of Wandrille)

Cynthia Hahn

4 Saints’ Lives on the Move: the Circulation of Apostolic Legends

Samantha Kahn Herrick

5 Thirteenth-Century Legendae Novae and the Preaching Orders: a Communication System

Giovanni Paolo Maggioni

Part 2

Constructing Religious Life, History and the Self

6 Vita Vel Regula: Multifunctional Hagiography in the Early Middle Ages

Albrecht Diem

7 Bishops, Monks and Priests: Defining Religious Institutions by Writing and Rewriting Saints’ Lives (Francia, 6th–11th centuries)

Charles Mériaux

8 Singing the Lives of the Saints: Hagiographical-Historical Intersections in Music and Worship

Catherine Saucier

9 “Impressed by Their Stamp”: Hagiography and the Cultivation of the Self

Ineke van ’t Spijker

Part 3

Power and Violence

10 Gaul’s Insiders: Hagiography and Entitlement

Jamie Kreiner

11 St Gerald of Aurillac, Sex and Violence in Medieval Hagiography

Mathew Kuefler

12 The Unconvincing Martyrdom of William Longsword, Norman Count of Rouen (r. 928–42)

David Defries

13 Hagiography, Relics and Secular Politics in Western Europe 6th–13th Centuries

Edina Bozóky

Part 4/b>

Urban Life and the Natural World

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

Klaus Krönert

15 Hagiography and Urban Life: Evidence from Southern Italy

Paul Oldfield

16 Hagiography and the Exotic: “Foreign Saints” in High Medieval Lucca

Adrian Cornell du Houx

17 Environmental History and Hagiography

Ellen Arnold

Part 5/b>

Gender, Health and Beauty

18 Hagiography, Gender, and the Power of Social Norms

Emma Campbell

19 A King, Not a Servant: the Prose Life of St Katherine of Alexandria and Ideologies of Masculinity in Late Medieval England

Katherine J. Lewis

20 Health, Healing, and Salvation: Hagiography as a Source for Medieval Healthcare

Sara Ritchey

21 The Beautiful Dead: Materiality, Resurrection and the Aesthetics of Holy Corpses

J.K. Kitchen

Hagiography Index

Über Autor(innen)

Samantha Kahn Herrick, Ph.D. (2002), Harvard University, is Associate Professor of History at Syracuse University. She has published widely on medieval hagiography, including Imagining the Sacred Past: Hagiography and Power in Early Normandy (Harvard, 2007).