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Rebecca Pinner’s 2010 dissertation entitled “St: Edmund, King and Martyr: Constructing his Cult in Medieval East Anglia” is a helpful, though gentle, pushback against the predominant scholarship surrounding Edmund and medieval saints’ cults in general. Pinner is familiar with a vast array of scholarship on saints but finds particular inspiration from Virginia Blanton’s “horizontal” workContinue reading “Monograph Review”

My saint is St. Edmund, also called Edmund the Martyr or Edmund of East Anglia. Although little contemporary work survives in the modern day on Edmund due to Viking raids and later the Dissolution of the monasteries, some work still survives due to his importance. He was a prevalent saint, considered to be the patronContinue reading “4.0 Art Historical Saint: St. Edmund”

Amiet, R. “Le Calendrier Liturgique Du Diocèse de Périgueux (1548-1559).” Bulletin de La Société Historique et Archéologique Du Périgord, no. 3 (1988): 121. https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&AuthType=shib&db=edscal&AN=edscal.11940174&site=eds-live. ——. “Un Missel de La Collégiale Saint-Front de Périgueux (XIe Siècle).” Bulletin de La Société Historique et Archéologique Du Périgord, no. 4 (1991): 609. https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&AuthType=shib&db=edscal&AN=edscal.6562105&site=eds-live. Coad, Jenny. “PERIGUEUX; With Its Turreted Cathedral, BusyContinue reading “Research Assignment 3.2”

The location I chose for 3.1 is Perigueux, France. This is on the Venezelay route through France. This is the resting place of St. Fronto. I first looked up the Perigueux Cathedral on Wikipedia, and then the city of Perigueux on Wikipedia. I then looked up the Perigueux diocese on a catholic website, because IContinue reading “Research Assignment 3.1”

Choose an invention/translation account from the period c. 800-1100 from Geary’s Appendix. My Saint: St. Severus, Bishop of Ravenna Evidence in the BHL, Acta Sanctorum, etc.: BHL 7681, 7682. In Brussels and Trier. No English Translation available. Acta Sanctorum: Located. Feast Day Feb 1. Section 3 is a Transaltio. Entitled Severi Translatio, cultus apud Germanos,Continue reading “Research Assignment 2.1”

Notes towards a critical study of St. Vitus’ cult Earliest pieces of evidence for cult: His translatio is marked earliest at AD 801-901, from Paris, in the BHL. I was able to look at the second oldest, from 851-950, from the Vatican. Code 0528, folios 092r-099v. In the Oxford Cult of Saints in Late antiquityContinue reading “Notes towards a critical study of the cult of St. Vitus”

This blog post will show an accumulation of texts written that concern Saint Vitus in some capacity. They come chiefly from databases I have access to (JSTOR, ATLA, ITER). Chicago style, as best as WordPress allows. Pity I could not figure out the indentations. Bibliography Bravermanová, Milena. “Archaeological Textiles from Prague Castle, Czech Republic.” In NorthContinue reading “St. Vitus 1.4”

Bibliography of Relevant Texts, according to the BHL (Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina). Each entry will start with the BHL Number, and then the title. 8711: Passio 8712: Passio 8712b: Passio 8712d: Passio 8713: Passio 8713b: Passio 8713d: Passio 8713f: Passio 8714: Passio 8715: Passio 8715b: Passio auct. Johanne Garzone 8716: Passio auct. Tutone mon. Tharisiensi 8717:Continue reading “St. Vitus 1.3”

I had to click on a few different tomes of the Acta Sanctorum to find my saint, but I eventually located Vitus in tomes 2. His feast day is June 15, which was the last day in tome 2. He was all the way down on page 1013 of the document, page 1135 on theContinue reading “St. Vitus 1.2”

Martyrdom of Saint Vitus, Germany circa 1515, St. Vitus church, Flein. From Wikipedia, link 1 Martyrdom: St. Vitus was martyred under the co-reign of Diocletian and Maximian. He himself was from Sicily, born around 290, and he was the son of a Pagan senator. At age twelve, he was converted by his tutor, St. Modestus, and his nurse,Continue reading “St. Vitus”