The Bollandists are an association of scholars who have studied hagiography and the cult of the saints since the early seventeenth century. They publish the Acta Sanctorum, an encyclopedic critical edition of the lives of saints. Also, they publish the Analecta Bollandiana, a journal on critical hagiography, twice a year. On their website, they link to their electronic publications/databases: BHGms (Bibliotheca Hagiographica Graeca manuscripta), the Acta Sanctorum database and the BHGms (Bibliotheca Hagiographica Graeca manuscripta). They also provide a list of useful links and have a newsletter.
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ARC Humanities Hagiography Bibliography
The website of the academic-led ARC Humanities Press provides useful bibliographies on medieval history. While the bibliography “Hagiography” is currently not available, there are several other extensive bibliographies on themes which are related to hagiography like “Theology and Spirituality”, “Medieval Liturgy”, “Sermons and Homilies” etc. The bibliographies are up-to-date (2020). Additionally, the ARC has a blog, twitter and Facebook page where their new publications are discussed.
Arbeitskreis für hagiographische Fragen
The Arbeitskreis für hagiographische Fragen was founded in 1994 and since then has been dedicated to interdisciplinary and international exchange on hagiographic research. While the focus of the working group lies on hagiographic texts and hagiographic discourse, it also deals with questions of religiosity, piety and sacredness. The website of the working group provides information on current events and programmes, reports and information on the publication of past conferences.
Thesaurus der Heiligen
The Thesaurus der Heiligen is part of the “Geschichtsquellen des deutschen Mittelalters“, which provides central information on medieval sources from the German territory. Thus, its focus lies on German saints and lists 296 entries. The entries include information on the opus in which the respective saint is mentioned and – if the author is known – on the author of these opuses. The site provides a useful overview of the handwritten tradition of the works and does also provide links to digitised manuscripts (if available), information on editions, translations and studies of author and/or opus.
Hagiographie et Histoire (Haghis)
HagHis: Hagiographie et Histoire: atelier français de recherches sur l’hagiographie médiévale is a French blog and research group on hagiography in the Middle Ages. The blog no longer seems to be active (last post as of march 2019). However, it still is a useful resource as it aims to inform on conferences and colloquiums concerned with hagiography. Furthermore, it provides other resources (such as bibliographies, useful links and online resources). The research group used to meet periodically.
Hagiography Society
The Hagiography Society was founded in 1990 and is the largest Anglo-American network for all historical research on saints and sanctity. The society aims to establish worldwide networking and communication. Its main focus lies on the medieval era, but does also welcome researchers from all eras and disciplines. Additionally, the websites provides information about the society’s own award, the “The Hagiography Society Book Prize” which they have been awarding annually since 2017; their own book series called “Sanctity in Global Perspective” and plans for the major medieval conferences in the United States and Great Britain (Kalamazoo, Leeds). The website has a useful online bibliography (currently unavailable) and a small selection of links (not annotated). The website also has a members only area, which includes a newsletter, additional accesses and other perks.
AISSCA: Associazione Italiana per lo Studio della Santità dei Culti e dell’Agiografia
This is the website of the Italian Association for the study of sanctity, cults and hagiography. They share information on their organisation, their members as well as upcoming events they are holding. Moreover, the section „Biblioteca agiografica“ continuously presents the latest publications from the hagiographic research field by recommendation of the society’s members. Also, they give information on their own publication series Sanctorum. Although the website is in Italian, some passages are also in English. They also link to their Youtube channel.
Centro Studi San Giovanni da Capestrano
This is the website of the Italian research centre for John of Capistrano. It mainly provides information on the life and work of John of Capistrano but also about past events and the research centre itself. Additionally, there are also some links to websites related to the subject.The website is in Italian.
Last Updated: 2020
Hagiologia
Hagiologia is an interdisciplinary Belgian working group for hagiographic research founded in 1994. Until 1999, the working group published five yearbooks called “Litterae Hagiologicae”, which can be read online. In addition, information on past working meetings can be found. Unfortunately, the working group does not seem to have been active since the early 2000s. The yearbook is also no longer published.
Medieval Nordic Text Archive
The Medieval Nordic Text Archive (Menota) was founded in 2001 and is a network of 15 Nordic archives, libraries and research departments. They aim at publishing medieval texts and manuscript facsimiles from Nordic countries in digital form and making them available online. They offer about 50 medieval Nordic tests which are mostly in Old Icelandic or Old Norwegian. However, there also are Old Swedish and Danish texts as well as Latin ones. All of them are encoded which means that morphological and syntactic queries can be made. You may use their helpdesk in order to navigate the catalogue. Menota also provides advice on the encoding of medieval manuscripts in XML in the form of encoding guidelines; translations of medieval Nordic texts and links to several dictionaries for medieval Nordic languages.