Medieval Hagiography: An Anthology

Cover......Page 1
Half Title......Page 2
Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Dedication......Page 6
Contents......Page 8
Acknowledgments......Page 12
Introduction......Page 14
Note on the Translations......Page 40
Contributors......Page 44
Chapter 1: Athanasius of Alexandria, Life of St. Antony of Egypt......Page 52
Chapter 2: Victricius of Rouen, In Praise of the Saints......Page 82
Chapter 3 : Mark the Deacon, Life of St. Porphyry of Gaza......Page 104
Chapter 4: Constantine the Great, the Empress Helena, and the Relics of the Holy Cross......Page 128
Chapter 5: Life of the Holy Virgin Samthann......Page 148
Chapter 6: Jonas of Bobbio, The Abbots of Bobbio from the Life of St. Columbanus......Page 162
Chapter 7: Dado of Rouen, Life of St. Eligius of Noyon......Page 188
Chapter 8: Bede, Martyrology......Page 220
Chapter 9: Einhard, Translation of the Relics of Sts. Marcellinus and Peter......Page 250
Chapter 10: Raguel, Martyrdom of St. Pelagius......Page 278
Chapter 11: Hrotsvit of Gandersheim, The Establishment of the Monastery of Gandersheim......Page 288
Chapter 12: Odilo of Cluny, Epitaph of the August Lady, Adelheid......Page 306
Chapter 13: The Cult of Relics in the Eleventh Century......Page 324
Chapter 14: Peter Damian, Life of St. Romuald of Ravenna......Page 346
Chapter 15: Life of St. Alexis......Page 368
Chapter 16: The Miracles of St. Ursmer on His Journey through Flanders......Page 392
Chapter 17: Drogo of Sint-Winoksbergen, Life of St. Godelieve......Page 410
Chapter 18: Hartvic, Life of King Stephen of Hungary......Page 426
Chapter 19: Guibert of Nogent, On Saints and Their Relics......Page 450
Chapter 20: A Tale of Doomsday Colum Cille Should Have Left Untold......Page 480
Chapter 21: Life of the Dear Friends Amicus and Amelius......Page 492
Chapter 22: The Book of Ely......Page 510
Chapter 23: The Tract on the Conversion of Pons of Léras and the True Account of the Beginning of the Monastery at Silvanès......Page 546
Chapter 24: Thomas of Monmouth, Life and Passion of St. William of Norwich......Page 566
Chapter 25: The Jewish Martyrs of Blois......Page 588
Chapter 26: Liturgical Offices for the Cult of St. Thomas Becket......Page 612
Chapter 27: Saga of Bishop Jón of Hólar......Page 646
Chapter 28: Gautier de Coincy, Miracles of the Virgin Mary......Page 678
Chapter 29: The Cult of Mary Magdalen in Late Medieval France......Page 706
Chapter 30: The Lives of St. Margaret of Antioch in Late Medieval England......Page 726
Chapter 31: The Middle-English version of Jacques de Vitry’s Life of St. Marie d’Oignies......Page 760
Chapter 32: Peter of the Morrone (Pope Celestine V), Autobiography......Page 780
Chapter 33: The Life of St. David set down by an Anchorite at Llanddewibrefi......Page 796
Chapter 34: The Old Czech Life of St. Catherine of Alexandria......Page 814
Chapter 35: The Canonization Process for St. Vincent Ferrer......Page 832
Chapter 36: The Mission of Joan of Arc......Page 856