The Hagiographical Experiment: Developing Discourses of Sainthood
- Submitting institution
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King's College London
- Unit of assessment
- 29 - Classics
- Output identifier
- 120129432
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- B - Edited book
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- Publisher
- Brill
- ISBN
- 9789004421325
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- March
- Year of publication
- 2020
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Forensic science
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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1
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- Additional information
- This volume is the first fruits of an ongoing project and network forging new paths in hagiographical scholarship. It stems from my interest in Eusebius’ early genre experiments with history and biography in Greek, and that of my co-editor, Christa Gray, in Jerome’s early hagiographies in Latin. Gray’s conference in Edinburgh in 2015 catalysed my successful application for a BA/Leverhulme Small Grant (SG153149: Constructing Sainthood: Test Cases for a Literary Approach to Hagiography), which funded panels at the International Medieval Congress, and the North American Patristics Society, and a 2016 symposium for select contributors in Durham. Of the twelve contributors, eight spoke at the original conference, one came from an open conference call, two were invited to provide additional geographical, thematic, and chronological coverage, and one was invited to provide a Postscript on the Press’ advice (a further paper was lost due to the author’s ill health). Contributors come from the UK, US, and Europe. The research project is ongoing; contributors have organised two further conferences inspired by the content and form of the Durham symposium, and Gray and I are planning two further volumes (on material and spatial approaches) supported by further funding applications.
I am the sole author of the first and longest essay, “The First Hagiographies” (pp.29-62) and co-wrote the introduction with Gray (pp.1-26), covering the history of scholarship, the definition and development of hagiography (including the problems of both and new solutions), and the relationships between papers, and their wider consequences. Contributors collectively honed pre-submitted drafts at the Durham symposium (producing unusual cohesiveness, indicated by extensive cross-referencing). Gray and I provided a round of detailed peer review to authors before subsequent submission to the Press reviewer. Later we added further cross-references, ensured stylistic and bibliographic consistency, and corrected the English of our many international contributors.
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