Une entreprise hagiographique au XIe  siècle dans l'abbaye de Fontenelle : le renouveau du culte de saint Vulfran by Lucile Tran-Duc

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Le ReTeHNor : un répertoire numérique de l’hagiographie latine de Normandie by Laura Vangone

“…How many hagiographers? Which models of sanctity? Which types of hagiographic writing? …”
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Os cem olhos do pavão by Marcelo Amato Cardoso

“…This article tries to show how the symbolism of the peacock was transmitted and adapted from Ancient India to Medieval Europe, where the bird figured in the Christian creativity as an emblem of the immortality of Christ and the preachers of the Church, along with hagiographical narratives and biblical images.…”
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Le culte de Maxime de Riez : premiers jalons (I) by Thierry Pécout

“…Maxime has been the object of various appropriations, especially in Flanders, in the Viennois, and in northern Italy, the sources of which are examined here. The hagiographic file of Maxime needs a reconstitution and a rereading on various levels.…”
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Le culte de Maxime de Riez : renouveaux (II) by Thierry Pécout

“…Maxime has been the object of various appropriations, especially in Flanders, in the Viennois, and in northern Italy, the sources of which are examined here. The hagiographic file of Maxime needs a reconstitution and a rereading on various levels.…”
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Osoba i przesłanie św. Franciszka by Roland Prejs

“…Francis` life although written according to the medieval hagiographical canons. St. Bonaventure was a theologian and philosopher first of all. …”
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Quelle couleur pour les frères ? Regards sur l’habit des Mineurs aux xiiie-xive siècles by Véronique Rouchon Mouilleron

“…It may be surprising to study the colour of the first Minorites clothing, since neither the Franciscan rule nor the hagiographical writings nor any of the first written accounts show any interest in this element of their clothing. …”
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The Gǝʿǝz Manuscripts Collection from the Monastery of Däbrä Ṣǝyon (Abunä Abrǝham, Tǝgray, Ethiopia) by Hagos Abrha Abay

“…Seventy-two Gǝʿǝz manuscripts, most of which of hagiographical and liturgical genre, are kept in the church. …”
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Some Customary Law Nuance on that Hagiography: Attempt of Interpretations by Marius Ščavinskas

“…But we can also find vendetta custom in hagiographical sources of late X-early XI centuries, sacred for St. …”
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"Russiana gloriatur ecclesia" and the issue of St. Bruno's of Querfurt missions by Marius Ščavinskas

“…Bruno, if we trust hagiographical sources, visited Prussia, but he didn't do any missions there—instead he immediately headed for the Russian-Lithuanian border. …”
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L’expulsion du métropolite copte Yā‘ǝqob (1337-1344) par le roi ‘Amda Ṣǝyon (1314-1344) : une politique de tolérance vis-à-vis des communautés musulmanes d’Éthiopie ?... by Martina Ambu

“…In order to do so, it will study an extensive hagiographic dossier, dating between the 14th and the 16th centuries, which contains many valuable elements that explain the policy adopted by ‘Amda Ṣǝyon towards his Muslim subjects. …”
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La valeur du corps saint d’après les Vitae des mulieres religiosas des Pays-Bas méridionaux du xiiie siècle by Anne-Laure Méril-Bellini delle Stelle

“…Far from the usual clichés about Christianity in the medieval West, hagiographic literature attests to the value of the body, including that of women, at least if they were holy. …”
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Hieronymus on Hermits by Ioana Costa

“…Hieronymus wrote three portraits belonging to the hagiographic tradition: Vita Beati Pauli, monachi Thebaei, [Vita Malchi] De monacho captiuo and Vita Hilarionis. …”
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À partir de la diffusion de trois poèmes hagiographiques, identification des centres carolingiens ayant influencé l’œuvre de Dudon de Saint-Quentin by Stéphane Lecouteux

“…Besides, the existence in Laon as early as the tenth century of the last two hagiographic works studied shows once more the close links binding Dudo to the city. …”
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De la mort à la fabrique du saint dans l’Éthiopie médiévale et moderne by Claire Bosc-Tiessé, Marie-Laure Derat

“…The episodes surrounding the death of a saint are described that mark stages in recognizing sainthood and establishing a place of worship and pilgrimage. Hagiographic accounts are the main sources of information for the medieval and modern periods about the stakes in each of the episodes described; they also establish de facto a model for the making of a saint. …”
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Os cavaleiros do Graal e o anti-heroísmo hagiográfico by Ana Margarida Chora

“…But if, on the one hand, their heroic characteristics determine the specificity of their ascetic evolution; on the other, hagiographic pathways in medieval narratives have forms that touch anti-heroism.…”
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St. Nikephoros of Antioch - a nominal warrior saint. A note on the interplay of onomastics and iconography in Eastern Christian art by Živković Miloš

“…It also draws attention to examples that feature this saint with warrior saints shown in patrician clothing. The hagiographic sources on St. Nikephoros offer no grounds for including this early Christian martyr in the military saint category. …”
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Une spiritualité féminine hors institution ? L’Histoire de la vie et mœurs de Marie Tessonnière (1650) by Antoinette GIMARET

“…This article shows how the author of the text, whilst recognising Marie’s exceptionality as a potential source of scandal, endeavours to place her within the hagiographic field. It then questions the gendered dimension of the enterprise and La Rivière’s valorisation of a real female apostolate, which somewhat complicated the reception of the text in 1650 and justified the censorship with which it was met.…”
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La vue et les matériaux. Le marbre dans l’Adoration du tombeau de saint Pierre de Vérone par Pedro Berruguete by VICENT DEBIAIS

“…Pedro Berruguete’s late 15th-century paintings for the conventual church of Santo Tomás in Ávila, now housed in the Museo del Prado, are among the hagiographic images that can be precisely associated with a historical context and a communicative intent. …”
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Cântecul lui Ioasaf şi verşul Sfântului Alexie, omul lui Dumnezeu. O abordare literară by Cristina-Ioana Dima

“…The first part of our study analyses the confusion of these two characters to whom is dedicated the poem. From the hagiographic works we find out that the Prince Josaphat finished his life in the Indian desert and the nobelman Alexis passed his last years incognito in his father’s yards. …”
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