When writers document the life of a saint, they describe past events, they put them into a narrative context that serves to further their story and, at the same time, fit within a larger plan of salvation. Hagiography is therefore a form of historical writing, but it differs from that of chroniclers...
The Order of the Holy Trinity for the Redemption of Captives (or Trinitarian Order) is one of the least studied continental religious groups to have expanded into thirteenth-century England. This article examines shifting notions of Trinitarian redemption in late medieval England through the prism o...
This essay shows that deep devotion and material interests were not incompatible for medieval hagiographers. Examination of the vita of Eucharius, first bishop of Trier, written around 900, reveals that its author intended to reinforce the reputation of his church by glorifying the saint. But in tho...
Athanasius, the author of Vita A of Athanasius the Athonite, was a highly unusual figure in Byzantine hagiography. Unlike other hagiographers, he did not shrink from making explicit his views on a number of topics. His comments about the importance of learning and about the relationship between the...
The Relationship of Local Apostolic Saints with St. Peter and St. Clement Legends of local saints often claim that their mission was prompted by Saint Peter or by Saint Clement. This motif first appears in the sixth century, to develop further between the ninth and eleventh centuries. Hagiographers...
The Relationship of Local Apostolic Saints with St. Peter and St. Clement Legends of local saints often claim that their mission was prompted by Saint Peter or by Saint Clement. This motif first appears in the sixth century, to develop further between the ninth and eleventh centuries. Hagiographers...
By contrast to the majority of the Muslim authors of Chinese origin who composed their literary works in the Chinese language, the authors of the Jahriyya Sufi order, a still active branch of the Naqshbandiyya network rooted mainly in the provinces of Gansu and Ningxia, have produced a small number...
Aigle Denise. Papaconstantinou Arietta, Debié Muriel, Kennedy Hugh (eds), Writing ‘True Stories’. Historians and Hagiographers in the Late Antique and Medieval Near East. Turnhout, Brepols, 2010. In: Bulletin critique des annales islamologiques, n°29, 2014. pp. 132-133.
Au XIIIe siècle, les premières mulieres religiosae fondent un phénomène spirituel dont l’ambigüité préoccupe autant les contemporains qu’il interroge les historiens des béguines et plus largement de l’Église médiévale et des femmes. À travers un corpus de Vitae et d’exempla provenant ou traitant des...
Gounelle Rémi. Arietta Papaconstantinou (éd.), in collaboration with Muriel Debié and Hugh Kennedy, Writing « True Stories » . Historians and Hagiographers in the Late Antique and Medieval Near East, (Cultural Encounters in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, 9), Turnhout, Brepols, 2010. In: Revue d...
La présente étude s'inscrit dans le débat à propos d'une éventuelle " mutation féodale " autour de l'an mil. Il s'agit d'étudier l'aristocratie laïque durant les Xe et XIe siècles, en prêtant une égale attention aux ressorts matériels et idéologiques de sa domination sociale. La signification des tr...
With apostasy and conversion to Islam becoming a major issue among Christian communities in the provinces of Syria and Palestine conquered by the Arabs, accounts about true believers who resisted conversion and died as martyrs for their faith appeared in Christian hagiography and historiography of t...
This paper examines the increasing use of the word 'heresy' after the turn of the millennium, whether it's aimed at describing 'Manichean' (pre-Cathar ?) heretics or simply church-reformers, without neglecting the depiction of more ancient heresies (such as Arianism) in more ancient sources. Did Aqu...
The dependence relationship between Saint Benedict and his serfs: constraint or protection? In the monastic domain of Fleury-sur-Loire, the relationship between the lord, Saint Benedict, and his serfs is atypical. Basically, this dependence brings with it mainly economic constraints for the dependen...