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.
Schlagwort-Archive: Early Middle Ages
Peregrinations
Peregrinations. Journal of Medieval Art & Architecture is a journal focusing on the art and architecture of the Middle Ages. The journal was founded in 2002, is published periodically and is especially concerned with medieval visual culture. Many articles explore the works of art created for the cults of saints who were venerated in various regional centers. Conveniently, the journal is open-access and available online.
Last Updated: 2021
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.
Mirabile Web
The Italian website MIRABILE provides a database of hagiographical source material in Latin, Italian and German languages in cooperation with some other projects. The website itself is available in Italian and English. The search query offers several options to refine the search, especially in terms of manuscripts. Additionally, there are search proposals to guide and help your research.
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.
Dictionary of Catholic Theology
A French website concerning saints linking to digitised editions and entries of the „Dictionnaire de Théologie Catholique“ (grouped by type: doctors of the church, church fathers, mystics, century).
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.
Internet Medieval Sourcebook: Saints‘ Lives
The Internet Medieval Sourcebook (IMS) is part of the Internet History Sourcebook project, which aims at providing digital versions of public domain original source texts and can be used as an online textbook. The sub-catalogue for hagiography lists the sources by era and geographical origin (for example “Celtic Saints”, “Byzantine Saints” etc.). Additionally, they provide sources for pilgrimage in Western Europe and about the contemporary critical handling of the cult of saints. While most of the sources are dedicated to one saint, the IMS also gives access to important hagiographical collections like the Golden Legend of Jacobus de Voragine or the work of Symeon Metaphrastes. The user – and that’s of the greatest benefit – can search the catalogue as well as the full text. However, the search procedure is split into different search engines. Reading the introduction to the search procedure is recommended. Not all of the links are still working but it still is an excellent resource for students and scholars! Paul Halsall and the large number of contributors included Latin and vernacular hagiographic texts and even some translations which makes the IMS a truly valuable source!
Mapping Miracles
The project Mapping Miracles. A Database of Motifs in Insular Hagiography was initially started by students and aims to develop a taxonomy and online repository of miracles in saints’ lives written in Latin and the regional vernaculars in Britain and Ireland between 600 and 1200. They are aiming at developing a useful resource for researchers. However, Mapping Miracles is still in its first phase as they are currently cataloging conversion motifs and coming up with an overall data structure. Also, the last post was published in 2014 and the last symposium was in 2015.
Last Updated: 2015
Pinakes – Textes et manuscrits grecs
The French website Pinakes – Textes et manuscrits grecs aims at compiling information on all Greek texts up to the 16th century based on archive and library catalogues. Pinakes has about 200000 entries based on 13000 texts of which there are a total of 40000 manuscripts. There are two search options: you can either search for a specific manuscript or conduct a more general research (author, work, century, country). Also, you can search for specific saints as Pinakes also provides the digitised manuscripts of the Greek hagiographic manuscripts of the Société des Bollandistes (BHGms, Bibliotheca Hagiographica Graeca manuscripta). They also link to useful resources and further catalogues. The website is updated regularly.