Early Medieval Hagiography

Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-1-64189-088-5
Verlag: ARC Humanities Press

Buch, Englisch, 134 Seiten, Format (B × H): 108 mm x 180 mm, Gewicht: 124 g

Reihe: Past Imperfect

Saints were powerful role models in the early Middle Ages, capable of defining communities. But what roles did saintly biographies play in shaping the medieval West? Can we understand society and its many post-Roman transformations through them? This short book takes readers from the creation of medieval hagiography, through the ways in which it circulated, to a wide-ranging assessment of different modern methodologies used to interrogate hagiographies, from early twentieth-century source criticism, to the insights gained from gender studies, postmodernism and digital humanities.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Palmer, James T

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Vor- und Frühgeschichte, prähistorische Archäologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
Making Saints (Up)
Collecting Saints’ Stories
Historians and the Quest for Truth
Hagiographies and Early Medieval History
Further Reading

Über Autor(innen)

Palmer, James T
Dr James T Palmer is Reader in Medieval History at the University of St Andrews. His recent books include The Apocalypse in the Early Middle Ages (2014) and Anglo-Saxons in a Frankish World (2009).