medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
If you haven't discovered them yet, Grace, Thomas Head has provided
wonderful resources in the hagiography section of ORB
(http://www.the-orb.net/encyclop/religion/hagiography/hagindex.html) and
also on his homepage (http://urban.hunter.cuny.edu/~thead/).
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Grace Hsiao-En Wu wrote:
> medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
>
> Dear learned list members,
>
> Please forgive my long and stupid question. I’m going to apply for PhD
> program at the end of this year. I hope to work on the cult of relics
> in early medieval monasteries, but now I’ve got some problems in
> writing the study plan.
>
> I don’t want to study the cult of some “universal” saints (like Peter
> or Paul) but of the saints that were venerated regionally or by
> several specific monasteries. And (I guess that) it’s thus easier to
> trace the acquisitions of relics, the making of relevant liturgies,
> and the circulation of these saints’ lives. I’ve read almost nothing
> on this topic before, but I think that by working in this way I may be
> able to rebuild a network of interactions between monastic houses that
> had the same patron saint (or the patron saints from the same family)....
>
>
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