Medieval Hagiography: An Anthology
Medieval Hagiography is a complete guide to the development of the cult of the saints and the practice of religion in the west during the Middle Ages. This comprehensive anthology includes translations of saints' lives, miracle stories, discoveries of relics, religious visions, canonization inquests, and heresy trials, all ranging from the fourth century to the pre-Reformation period. It contains translations from Latin, Greek, and Romance, Celtic, Germanic, and Slavic vernacular languages....
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This collection presents-through the medium of translated sources-a comprehensive guide to the development of hagiography and the cult of the saints in western Christendom during the middle ages. It provides an unparalleled resource for the study of the ideals of sanctity and the practice of religion in the medieval west. Intended for the classroom, for the medieval scholar who wishes to explore sources in unfamiliar languages, and for the general reader fascinated by the saints, this collection provides the reader a chance to explore in depth a full range of "writings about the saints" (the term hagiography is derived from Greek roots: hagios=holy and graphe=writing). The thirty-six chapters contain sources either in their entirety or in selections of substantial length. The great majority of the texts have never previously appeared in English translation. Those which have appeared in earlier translation, are here presented in versions based on significant new textual and historical scholarship which makes them significant improvements on the earlier versions.
AcknowledgmentsxiIntroductionxiiiNote on the TranslationsxxxixContributorsxliiiChapter 1Athanasius of Alexandria, Life of St. Antony of Egypt1Chapter 2Victricius of Rouen, In Praise of the Saints31Chapter 3Mark the Deacon, Life of St. Porphyry of Gaza53Chapter 4Constantine the Great, the Empress Helena, and the Relics of the Holy Cross77Chapter 5Life of the Holy Virgin Samthann97Chapter 6Jonas of Bobbio, The Abbots of Bobbio from the Life of St. Columbanus111Chapter 7Dado of Rouen, Life of St. Eligius of Noyon137Chapter 8Bede, Martyrology169Chapter 9Einhard, Translation of the Relics of Sts. Marcellinus and Peter199Chapter 10Raguel, Martyrdom of St. Pelagius227Chapter 11Hrotsvit of Gandersheim, The Establishment of the Monastery of Gandersheim237Chapter 12Odilo of Cluny, Epitaph of the August Lady, Adelheid255Chapter 13The Cult of Relics in the Eleventh Century273Chapter 14Peter Damian, Life of St. Romuald of Ravenna295Chapter 15Life of St. Alexis317Chapter 16The Miracles of St. Ursmer on His Journey through Flanders341Chapter 17Drogo of Sint-Winoksbergen, Life of St. Godelieve359Chapter 18Hartvic, Life of King Stephen of Hungary375Chapter 19Guibert of Nogent, On Saints and Their Relics399Chapter 20A Tale of Doomsday Colum Cille Should Have Left Untold429Chapter 21Life of the Dear Friends Amicus and Amelius441Chapter 22The Book of Ely459Chapter 23The Tract on the Conversion of Pons of Leras and the True Account of the Beginning of the Monastery at Silvanes495Chapter 24Thomas of Monmouth, Life and Passion of St. William of Norwich515Chapter 25The Jewish Martyrs of Blois537Chapter 26Liturgical Offices for the Cult of St. Thomas Becket561Chapter 27Saga of Bishop Jon of Holar595Chapter 28Gautier de Coincy, Miracles of the Virgin Mary627Chapter 29The Cult of Mary Magdalen in Late Medieval France655Chapter 30The Lives of St. Margaret of Antioch in Late Medieval England675Chapter 31The Middle-English version of Jacques de Vitry's Life of St. Marie D'Oignies709Chapter 32Peter of the Morrone (Pope Celestine V), Autobiography729Chapter 33The Life of St. David set down by an Anchorite at Llanddewibrefi745Chapter 34The Old Czech Life of St. Catherine of Alexandria763Chapter 35The Canonization Process for St. Vincent Ferrer781Chapter 36The Mission of Joan of Arc805
