medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
On Saturday, January 22, 2011, at 11:21 am, Meg Cormack wrote:
> date of the death of the person would be the only reasonable way to
> deal with a chronological arrangement.
True, but even so one has to be flexible with late antique and early medieval saints for whom we don't have even approximate dates of death (or for whom those dates that we do have are manifestly fictional). Though that's dealt with easily enough, it _is_ another demand on the time of the compiler of the daily postings.
I have to say that while I understand the impulse to have the entries ordered chronologically I actually liked Terri's alphabetical arrangement because of the variety it produced. In some ancient, medieval, and Renaissance letter collections _poikilia_ or _varietas_ is actually a pleasing organizing principle. So it could be here, especially insofar as the subjects of these entries are thought of as existing together and timelessly in the hereafter. But this is surely a minority view.
> information about canonization and the when and where of veneration
> could follow.
Er, canonization/glorification (not all churches with medieval saints are Roman).
> I note that no one has yet suggested organization according to whether
> the person was a martyr, confessor, etc. etc.!
Perhaps some have taken to heart the muddle created by differing views of the martyrial status of the recently celebrated Felix of Nola. This sort of thing happens more often than one might think, as does also status variation between bishop and something-not-bishop.
Best again,
John Dillon
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