medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
> medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
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> Can you name any major saint who was not accused of sexual
> improprieties? It goes with the territory.
What major saints do you have in mind? As a student of medieval hagiography
in the tenth and eleventh centuries, I have observed that issues of sexual
impropriety, while not unheard of, are rare (the case of St. Emmeram comes
to mind). As for such accusations coming with the territory, I presume you
mean the territory of canonization, which was only systematized by the later
middle ages. In how many cases do accusations of sexual impropriety play a
role in the canonization procedure? I'm not familiar with the literature of
canonization. In my period, sainthood was most often handled on a local
level.
Ray Lavoie
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