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Imagining the Sacred Past: Hagiography and Power in Early Normandy

Imagining the Sacred Past: Hagiography and Power in Early Normandy 230 Book Reviews / Journal of Religion in Europe 1 (2008) 227–246 Samantha Kahn Herrick, Imagining the Sacred Past: Hagiography and Power in Early Normandy (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2007 ), 242 pp., ISBN: 978-0-674-02443-4, $49.95. Hagiography (literature about saints) is an essential, yet notoriously problematic, type of source material for historians working on the Middle Ages. In addition to the problems inherent in dealing with the reports of miracles that form much of their content, hagiographic texts are often diffi cult to date. As a result, although the Bollandists—a group of Belgian Jesuits—began publishing editions of hagiographic texts in 1643, it is only in the last three decades that these texts have received wide- spread attention from scholars. Although many medieval hagiographic texts have been examined in this period, thousands more lie in waiting. In Imagining the Sacred Past , Samantha Herrick has rescued three such texts—the Passio s. Nicasii , the Vita s. Vigoris and the Vita s. Taurini —from relative neglect with painstaking and insightful analyses of their contents and the contexts in which they were pro- duced. Her book is a signifi cant and timely contribution to the history of both medieval hagiography http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of Religion in Europe Brill

Imagining the Sacred Past: Hagiography and Power in Early Normandy

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Journal of Religion in Europe , Volume 1 (2): 230 – Jan 1, 2008
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© 2008 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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230 Book Reviews / Journal of Religion in Europe 1 (2008) 227–246 Samantha Kahn Herrick, Imagining the Sacred Past: Hagiography and Power in Early Normandy (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2007 ), 242 pp., ISBN: 978-0-674-02443-4, $49.95. Hagiography (literature about saints) is an essential, yet notoriously problematic, type of source material for historians working on the Middle Ages. In addition to the problems inherent in dealing with the reports of miracles that form much of their content, hagiographic texts are often diffi cult to date. As a result, although the Bollandists—a group of Belgian Jesuits—began publishing editions of hagiographic texts in 1643, it is only in the last three decades that these texts have received wide- spread attention from scholars. Although many medieval hagiographic texts have been examined in this period, thousands more lie in waiting. In Imagining the Sacred Past , Samantha Herrick has rescued three such texts—the Passio s. Nicasii , the Vita s. Vigoris and the Vita s. Taurini —from relative neglect with painstaking and insightful analyses of their contents and the contexts in which they were pro- duced. Her book is a signifi cant and timely contribution to the history of both medieval hagiography

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