List #10: Themes and Topoi

 

 

Holy Models:

 

Bjelland, Karen. “Franciscan versus Dominican Responses to the Knight as a Societal Model: The Case of the South English Legendary,”  Franciscan Studies 26 (48, 1988):  11-27.

                                                     

Brown, Peter.  “The Saint as Exemplar in Late Antiquity.”  Representations 1 (1983):  1-25.

 

Chenu, Marie-Dominique.  “Monks, Canons, and Laymen in Search of the Apostolic Life” and “The Evangelical Awakening.” In his Nature, Man, and Society in the Twelfth Century: Essays on New Theological Perspectives in the Latin West, translated by Jerome Taylor and Lester Little.  Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1968. Pp. 202-69.

 

Coon, Lynda L. Sacred Fictions: Holy Women and Hagiography in Late Antiquity.  Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1997.

 

de Gaiffier, Baudouin. “Miracles bibliques et vies des saints.”  Nouvelle revue théologique, 88 (1966):  376-85.  Reprinted. in his Etudes critiques . . .                                   

 

Déroche, Vincent.  Études sur Léontius de Néapolis.  Studia Byzantina Upsaliensia 3.  Uppsala: Almquist & Wiksell, 1995. [re holy fool]

 

Droogers, André.  “Symbols of Marginality in the Biographies of Religious and Secular Innovators.”  Numen 27 (1980): 105-21.

 

Heinzelmann, Martin.   “Sanctitas und ‘Tugendadel’:  Zu Konzeption von ‘Heiligenkeit’ im 5. und 10. Jahrhundert.”  Francia 5 (1977): 741-52.

 

Hamilton, Bernard.  “Ideals of Holiness:  Crusaders, Contemplatives, and Mendicants.”  The International History Review 17 (1995): 693-712.

 

Helvétius, Anne-Marie.  Les modèles de sainteté dans les monastères de l’espace Belge du VIIIe au Xe siècle.” Revue bénédictine 103 (1993): 51-67.

 

Howe, John.  “The Symbolic Significance of the Hermit as a Possible Research Perspective.”  Numen 30 (1983): 106-19.

 

Krueger, Derek.  Symeon the Holy Fool:  Leontius’s Life and the Late Antique City.  Transformation of the Classical Heritage 25.  Berkeley:  University of California Press, 1996.

 

Leclercq, Jean.  La Vie parfaite: Points de vue sur l’essence de l’état religieux. Tradition monastique 1.  Paris:  Brepols, 1948.            

 

Leff, Gordon. “The Apostolic Ideal in Later Medieval Ecclesiology.” Journal of Theological Studies n.s. 28 (1967): 58-82.

 

Penco, Gregorio.  “L’imitazione di Cristo nell’agiografia monastica.”  Collectanea Cisterciensia 28 (1966):  17-34.

 

Hundersmarck, L.F.  “Preaching the Passion.  Late Medieval Lives of Christ as Sermon Vehicles.”  In De Ore Domini:  Preacher and Word in the Middle Ages, edited by Thomas L. Amos et al.  Studies in medieval Culture 27.  Kalamazoo:  Medieval Institute, 1989. Pp. 147-67.

 

Proudfoot, C. Merrill. “Imitation or Realistic Participation?  A Study of Paul’s Concept of ‘Suffering with Christ.’” Interpretation 17 (1963):  140-60.

 

McDonell, Ernest. “The Vita Apostolica:  Diversity or Dissent.” Church History 24 (1955):  15-31.    

 

Saward, John.  Perfect Fools:  Folly for Christ’s Sake in Catholic and Orthodox Spirituality.  Oxford:  Oxford University Press, 1980.

 

Smith, Katherine Allen. “Saints in Shining Armor:  Martial Asceticism and Masculine Models of Sanctity, ca. 1050-1250,” Speculum 83 (2008):572-602.

 

Van Uytfanghe, Marc. “La typologie de la sainteté en Occident vers la fin de l’Antiquité (avec une attention spéciale aux modèles bibliques),” In Scrivere di santi:  Atti del II Convegno di studio dell’Associazione italiana per lo studio della santità dei culti e del’agiografia, Napoli, 22-25 ottobre, 1997, ed. Gennaro Luongo.  Rome: Viella, 1998. Pp. 17-48. 

 

Zocca, Elena. "Il modello dei sette fratelli "Maccabei" nella più antica agiografia Latina." Sanctorum 4 (2007): 101-28.

 

 

Holy Deeds:

 

Baker, Derek.  “The Surest Road to Heaven:  Ascetic Spiritualities in English Post-Conquest Religious Life.”  In Sanctity and Secularity: The Church and the World.  Studies in Church History 10.  Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1973.  Pp. 45-57.

             

Boglioni, Pierre.  “La scène de la mort dans les premières hagiographies latines.”  In Le sentiment de la mort au moyen âge.  Montreal:  Aurore, 1979.  Pp. 185-210.

 

Bray, D.A.  A List of Motifs in the Lives of the Early Irish Saints.  FF Communications, 252.  Helsinki:  Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia/Academiia Scientiarum Fennica, 1992.

                                                  

Brewer, Ebenezer Cobham.  A Dictionary of Miracles.  1885, reprinted Detroit: Gale Research Company, 1966.     

 

Colledge, Edmund, and J.C. Marler.  “'Cephalologie,’ A Recurring Theme in Classical and Mediaeval Lore.” Traditio 37 (1981): 411-26.                    

 

Cross, Ton Peete.  Motif Index of Early Irish Literature. Folklore Series 7.  Bloomington, Indiana:  Indiana University Press, 1952.                                                

 

Cruz, Joan Carroll.  The Incorruptibles:  A Study of the Incorruption of the Bodies of Various Catholic Saints and Beati. Rockford, IL: Tan Books and Publishers, 1977.

 

Gougaud, Louis.   Anciennes coutumes claustrales.  Moines et monastères 8.  Vienne:  St.-Martin de Ligugé, 1930.

 

Gougaud, Louis.  Dévotions et pratiques ascétiques du moyen âge.  Collection “Pax”, vol. 21.  Paris: Abbaye de Maredsous, 1925.

 

Moulinier, L.  “Quand la malin fait l’esprit. Le rire au moyen âge vu depuis l’hagiographie.” Annales 52 (1997):  457-75.

 

Musurillo, Herbert.  “The Problem of Ascetical Fasting in the Greek Patristic Writers.”  Traditio,12 (1956): 1-64.

 

Peyroux, Catherine. “The Leper’s Kiss,” in Monks & Nuns, Saints & Outcasts: Religion in Medieval Society: Essays in Honor of Lester K. Little, edited by Sharon Farmer & Barbara H. Rosenwein. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2000. Pp. 172-88.

 

Van Uytfanghe, Marc.  “La controverse biblique et patristique autour du miracle, et ses répercussions sur l’hagiographie dans l’Antiquité tardive et le haut moyen âge latin.” In  Hagiographie, cultures, et sociétés, IVe-XIIe siècles:  Actes du Colloque organisé à Nanterre et à Paris (2-5 mai 1979),  edited by the Centre de recherches sur l’antiquité tardive et le haut moyen âge, Université de Paris X.  Paris: Etudes augustiniennes, 1981.  Pp. 205-33.

 

Vauchez, André. “La pauvreté volontaire au moyen âge.” Annales 25 (1970): 1566-73.

 

            Some themes can be investigated by the Stith-Thompson motif index used in folklore studies.  Some topoi can be surveyed by looking at the “Index Moralis” of each volume of the Acta Sanctorum.

 

Some Miracle Types:

 

Animals and Saints and in the Middle Ages

Alexander, Dominic. Saints and Animals in the Middle Ages. Woodbridge: Boydell and Brewer, 2008.

Tiere als Freunde im Mittelalter: eine Anthologie, edited by Gabriela Kompatscher, Albrecht Classen,und Peter Dinzelbacher.  Badenweiler : Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Bachmann, 2010.

Grant, R. M. Early Christians and Animals. New York: Routledge, 1999.

 

Cephalophorism 

Gabet, Philippe.  “Recherches sur les saints ‘cephalophores,” In Mélanges de mythologie française offerts à Henri Dontenville.  Paris:  Société de mythologie française, 1980.  Pp. 105-34.

            Santing, Catrien, Barbara Baert, and Anita Traninger, eds. Disembodied Heads in Medieval and Early Modern Culture. Leiden: Brill, 2013.

            Simonetti, Adele.  “Santi cefalofori altomedievali.” Studi medievali 3rd ser. 28 (1987): 67-121.

 

Exorcism  

Goddu, André.  “The Failure of Exorcism in the Middle Ages.” In  Miscellanea Mediaevalia:  Veröffentlichungen des Thomas-Instituts der Universität zu Köln 12 (1980): 5540-57. 

Westerinck, Herman. "Demonic Possession and the Historical Construction of Melancholy and Hysteria." History of Psychiatry 25 (2014): 335-49.

 

Incorrupt Body 

Arnold Angenendt. “Corpus Incorruptum:  Eine Leitidee der mittelalterlichen Reliquienverehrung,” Saeculum 42 (1991): 320-48.  Reprinted in his Die Gegenwart von Heiligen und Reliquien, edited by Hubertus Lutterbach.  Münster:  Aschendorff Verlag, 2010. Pp. 109-43.

 

Injured Image 

Geary, Patrick. "L'humiliation des saints," Annales ESC 34 (1979): 27-42.

J.-M. Sansterre, “L’Image blessé, l’image souffrante:  quelques récits de miracles entre Orient et Occident (VIe-XIIe s.).” Bulletin de l’Institut historique belge de Rome 69 (1999) 113-30.

 

Nature Controlled

Loomis, C. Grant.  White Magic: An Introduction to the Folklore of Christian Legend.  Cambridge: Mediaeval Academy of America, 1948.

 

Prophetic Visions of Future Greatness. 

Lanzoni, Francesco. “Il sogno presago della madre incinta nella letteratura medievale e antica,” Analecta Bollandiana 45 (1927): 225-261.

 

Retribution  

de Gaiffier, Baudouin.  “Les revendications de biens dans quelques documents hagiographique du XIe siècle.” Analecta Bollandiana 50 (1930), 123-42.

Paolo Golinelli.  “Il Topos dell’incredulo punito nell’agiografia padana dei secoli IX-XII.”  In Florentissima Proles Ecclesiae:  Miscellanea Hagiographica, Historica et Liturgica Reginaldo Grégoire O.S.B. XII Lustra Complenti Oblata.  Trento: CIVIS, 1996.  Pp. 305-25.

 

 

Holy Rhetoric:

 

Boulhol, Pierre.  Anagnorisis [Greek Characters]: La scène de reconnaissance dans l’hagiographie antique et médiévale.  Aix-en-Provence: Université de Provence, 1996.

 

Curtius, Ernst.  European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages, translated by Willard Trask.  Bollingen Series 36.  New York: Pantheon Books, 1953.

 

Dolbeau, François.  “Un domaine negligée de la literature médiolatine:  les texts hagiographiques en vers.” Cahiers de civilization médiévale, 45 (no. 178) (2002): 129-39.                                 

 

Eliot, Alison Goddard. “The Martyr as Epic Hero: Prudentius’ Peristephanon and the Old French Chanson de Geste.” Proceedings of the PMR Conference 3 (1978):  119-35. 

 

Eliot, Alison Goddard. “The Power of Discourse:  Martyr’s Passion and Old French Epic.”  Medievalia et Humanistica n.s. 11 (1982):  39-60.

 

Elliott, Alison Goddard.  Roads to Paradise:  Reading the Lives of the Early Saints.  Hanover:  Published for Brown University press by the University Press of New England, 1987.

 

de Gaiffier, Baudouin.  “Les “doublets” en hagiographie latine.”  Analecta Bollandiana 96 (1978):  261-69.

 

DeGórski, Bazli.  “Gli epiloghi della Vitae monastiche del IV secolo: Fra retorica e teologia.”  In La narrativa cristiana antica: Codici narrativi, strutture formali, schemi retorici.  XXIII Incontro di studiosi dell’antichità cristiana, Roma, 5-7 maggio 1994.  Rome: Institutum Patristicum Augustinianum, 1995. Pp. 193-209.

 

Goullet, Monique, and Martin Heinzelmann.  La réécriture hagiographique dans l’Occident medieval Transformations formelles et idéologiques.   Beihefte der Francia, 58.  Ostfildern:  Jan Thorbecke Verlag, 2003.

     

Kaske, R.E.  Medieval Christian Literary Imagery:  A Guide to Interpretation.  Toronto Medieval Bibliographies 11.  Toronto:  University of Toronto Press, 1988.

              

Kerlouégan, François.  “Les citations d’auteurs latins chrétiens dans les vies de saints bretons Carolingiennes.” Études celtiques 19 (1982): 215-57.

                       

Kerlouégan, François.  “Les citations d’auteurs latins profanes dans les vies de saints bretons Carolingiennes.” Études celtiques 18 (1981): 181-95.

 

Leclercq, Jean. “Ecriture sainte dans l’hagiographie monastique du moyen âge.” In La Bibbia nell’alto medioevo.  Settimane di studio del Centro italiano di studi sull alto medioevo 10.  Spoleto: CISAM, 1963.  Pp. 103-26.

 

Pratsch, Thomas.  “Exploring the Jungle:  Hagiographical Literature between Fact and Fiction.”  Proceedings of the British Academy 118 (2003); 59-72.

 

Pratsch, Thomas.  Die hagiographischer Typos: Griechische Heiligenviten in mittelbyzantinischer Zeit. Millennium-Studien 6. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2005. Parallels Greek & Latin terms, ca. 150 sources.

 

Taylor, Anna.  “Just Like a Mother Bee:  Reading and Writing Vitae Metricae around the Year 1000.”  Viator 36 (2005): 119-48.

 

Tomea, Paolo. “Corpore Quidam Juvencula sed Animo Cana: La Passio Agnetis BHL 156 e il topos della Puella Senex nell’agiografia mediolatina,” Analacta Bollandiana 128 (2010): 18-55.

 

 

Sociology of the Saints:

 

Delooz, Pierre.  Sociologie et canonisations.  Collection scientifique de la Faculté de droit de l’Université de Liege, vol. 30.  The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1969.

 

George, Katherine and Charles H.  “Roman Catholic Sainthood and Social Status.” The Journal of Religion 35 (1955): 85-98.

 

Glasser, Marc.  “Marriage in Medieval Hagiography.”  Studies in Medieval and Renaissance History 4 (1981): 1-34.             

 

Goodich, Michael.  Vita Perfecta:  The Ideal of Sainthood in the Thirteenth Century.  Monographien zur Geschichte des Mittelalters 25.  Stuttgart:  Anton Hiersemann, 1982.                                   

 

Gradowicz-Pancer, M.  “Papa, maman, l’abbé, et moi: “Conversio Morum” et pathologie familiale d’après les sources hagiographiques du haut moyen âge.” Le moyen âge 101 (1996): 7-25.

 

Tibbets-Schulenburg, Jane. Forgetful of Their Sex: Female Sanctity and Society, ca. 500-1100. Chicago: University of Chicago, 1998.