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HDS 2233 Saints, Sanctity and Society in Ancient and Medieval Christianity HDS 2233 Saints, Sanctity and Society in Ancient and Medieval Christianity Kevin Madigan (For office appointment [in Andover 403] with Kevin Madigan, email Kristin Gunst (kgunst@hds.). Office hours are MW 11:30-12:30. An historical introduction to the field of Christian hagiography. Topics include interpretive method, martyrdom and sanctity, sanctity and monasticism, shrines and pilgrimage, gender and sanctity, relics and veneration, canonization and the politics of sanctity. Significant attention given to parallels in other world religions, including Hinduism and Buddhism, and some to sanctity in modern America and to the making of saints today. Enrollment limited to 15. Offered by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences as Religion 1411. Mondays and Wednesdays, 9-10 Place: Andover 117 Requirements. In addition to regular and diligent class participation (50% of final grade), students Will write a substantial research paper (about 25 double-spaced, 12 pitch pages with standard one- inch margins and bibliography); will introduce the primary and secondary reading for at least one class (usually 2 students per class will do this); will present a report on a significant article or book (see “for presentations”) and will present their preliminary research findings at the end of term. Required Texts (all available for purchase at HDS bookstore and on reference at the Andover- Newton Library Reserve Desk) Brown, Peter. The Cult of the Saints (University of Chicago) Finucane, Ronald. Miracles and Pilgrims: Popular Beliefs in Medieval England (St. Martin) Head, Thomas. Medieval Hagiography: An Anthology (Routledge) Head, Thomas and Noble, Thomas F.X. Soldiers of Christ: Saints and Saints’ Lives from Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages (Penn State) Kieckhefer, Richard and George Bond. Sainthood: Its Manifestations in World Religions (University of California Press; Reprint edition) O, Shea. Sainthood in the Later Middle Ages Shaner, John. Medieval Popular Religion Stouck, Mary-Ann. Medieval Saints: A Reader (Broadview) Webb, Diana. Medieval Pilgrimage Weinstein, R. and Bell, Saints and Society 1 Woodward, Kenneth. Making Saints (Touchstone) Calendar of Topics and Readings Beginning on September 7, each week’s reading for the first half of term will be divided into three parts: primary sources, secondary reading and readings for presentation. All students should read the primary and secondary reading each week. In addition, some students will be reporting on a book or article from the “presentations” lists every week. (The presentations will be scheduled at the beginning of term.) September 2 Introduction: Hagiography and Saints’ Cults Hippolyte Delehaye, The Legends of the Saints: An Introduction to Hagiography, trans. V. M. Crawford (London, 1907 and reprints), particularly pp. 1-168. Thomas Head, "Introduction," in Medieval Hagiography. 7, 9, 14 Martyrdom and Sanctity. Primary sources: The Martyrdom of Polycarp of Smyrna in Medieval Saints. chap. 1 The Passion of Perpetua and Felicity in Medieval Saints, chap. 3 Tertullian, Address to the Martyrs in Medieval Saints, chap. 4. The Acts of Cyprian of Carthage in Medieval Saints, chap. 6. Secondary Reading Peter Brown, The Cult of the Saints. Its Rise and Function in Latin Christianity (Chicago, 1981) For presentations: 2 Tessa Rajak, "Dying for the Law: The Martyr’s Portrait in Jewish-Greek Literature," in Portraits: Biographical Representation in the Greek and Latin Literature of the Roman Empire, eds. M. J. Edwards and Simon Swain (Oxford, 1997), pp. 39-67. Daniel Boyarin, "Martyrdom and the Making of Christianity and Judaism," Journal of Early Christian Studies, 5 (1998): 577-627. Brent Shaw, "Body/Power/Identity: Passions of the Martyrs," Journal of Early Christian Studies, 4 (1996): 269-312. 16, 21, 23 Transformation of Christian Sanctity: The Holy Man Primary sources: Athanasius, Life of Antony of Egypt in Medieval Hagiography, chap. 1. Mark the Deacon, Life of Porphyry of Gaza in Medieval Hagiography, chap. 3. Sulpicius Severus, Life of St. Martin of Tours in Soldiers of Christ, chap 1. Constantius of Lyon, The Life of St. Germanus of Auxerre in Soldiers of Christ, chap. 3. Secondary Reading (on reserve) Peter Brown, "The Rise and Function of the Holy Man in Late Antiquity, 1971-1997," Journal of Early Christian Studies 6.3 (1998) 353-376. For presentations Susan Harvey, "Sacred Bonding: Mothers and Daughters in Early Syriac Hagiography," Journal of Early Christian Studies, 4 (1996), pp. 27-56. Peter Brown, "The Saint as Exemplar in Late Antiquity," Representations (1983), pp. 1-25. 28, 30 Sanctity in the Early Middle Ages. Primary sources: Life of the Holy Virgin Samthann in Medieval Hagiography, chap. 5. Jonas of Bobbio, "The Abbots of Bobbio" from The Life of St. Columbanus in Medieval Hagiography, chap. 6. Dado of Rouen, Life of St. Eligius of Noyon in Medieval Hagiography, chap. 7. Einhard, Translation of the Relics of Sts. Marcellinus and Peter in Medieval Hagiography, chap. 3 9. Raguel, Martyrdom of St. Pelagius in Medieval Hagiography, chap. 10. Willibald, The Life of St. Boniface in Soldiers of Christ, chap. 4. Alcuin, The Life of St. Willibrord in Soldiers of Christ, chap. 7. Rudolf, The Life of St. Leoba in Soldiers of Christ, chap. 8. Secondary Reading Patrick Geary, Furta Sacra. Thefts of Relics in the Central Middle Ages (Princeton, 1978; second edition 1990). On reserve: Ian Wood, The Missionary Life: Saints and the Evangelisation of Europe, 400-1050 (Harlow, Essex, 2001), pp. 57-94 For presentations Kathleen Mitchell and Ian Woods (eds.), The World of Gregory of Tours (Cultures, Beliefs and Traditions: Medieval and Early Modern Peoples 8; Leiden: Brill, 2002). 4 5 October 5, 7, 14 Saints, Miracles, Shrines NO CLASS 10/12 COLUMBUS DAY Primary sources: Hrotsvit of Gandersheim, The Establishment of the Monastery of Gandersheim in Medieval Hagiography, chap. 11. Excerpts from the Book of Ely in Medieval Hagiography, chap. 22. Liturgical Offices for the Feast of Thomas Becket in Medieval Hagiography, chap. 26. Texts on shrines in Medieval Saints, chaps. 25, 34, and 25. Texts on the cult of relics in the eleventh century in Medieval Hagiography, chap. 13. The Miracles of St. Ursmer on His Journey Through Flanders in Medieval Hagiography, chap. 16. Guibert of Nogent, On Saints and their Relics in Medieval Hagiography, chap. 19. Claudius of Turin’s critique of the cult of relics in Medieval Saints, chap. 31. Secondary Reading Finucane, Miracles and Pilgrims: Popular Beliefs in Medieval England (St. Martin’s) For presentations: Ben Nilson, "The Medieval Experience at the Shrine," in Pilgrimage Explored, ed. J. Stoppard (York, 2000), pp. 95-122. Jane Tibbetts Schulenburg, "Gender, Celibacy, and Proscriptions of Sacred Space: Symbol and Practice," in Medieval Purity and Piety: Essays on Medieval Clerical Celibacy and Religious Reform, ed. Michael Frassetto (New York, 1998), pp. 353-76. Werner Jacobsen, "Saints’ Tombs in Frankish Church Architecture," Speculum, 72 (1997): 1107-43. 6 19, 21, 26, 28 Canonization, Politics and Sanctity in the High Middle Ages. Primary sources: The Saga of Bishop Jon of Holar in Medieval Hagiography, chap 27 The Autobiography of Peter of the Morrone in Medieval Hagiography, chap. 32 The Canonization Process for St. Vincent Ferrer in Medieval Hagiography, chap.35 Texts on the life of Francis of Assisi in Medieval Saints, chaps. 39-42. Texts on the canonization of Francis of Assisi in Medieval Saints, chap. 43. Secondary Reading André Vauchez, Sainthood in the Later Middle Ages, trans. Jean Birrell (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997). Available on reserve Aviad Kleinberg, Prophets in Their Own Country: Living Saints and the Making of Sainthood in the Later Middle Ages (Chicago, 1992), any of the case studies. D. Weinstein and R. Bell, Saints and Society: the Two Worlds of Western Christendom, 1000-1700 (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1982). For presentations: Michael Goodich, Violence and Miracle in the Fourteenth Century: Private Grief and Public Salvation (Chicago, 1995). November 2, 4 INSTRUCTOR OUT OF TOWN Secondary Reading Kenneth Woodward, Making Saints Kieckhefer and Bond. Sainthood: Its Manifestations in World Religions 7 9, 16 Sanctity and Gender in the High Middle Ages NO CLASS 11/11 VETERANS’ DAY Primary sources: Texts on the Life of St. Margaret of Antioch in Medieval Hagiography, chap. 30. The Middle-English version of Jacques de Vitry's Life of St. Marie d'Oignies in Medieval Hagiography, chap. 31. Thomas of Cantimpré, The Life of Christina the Astonishing in Medieval Saints, chap. 37. The Life of Umilta of Faenza in Medieval Saints, chap. 38. Secondary Reading O’Shea, Sainthood in the Later Middle Ages Recommended: Caroline Bynum and Catherine Mooney,Gendered Voices Medieval Saints and Their Interpreters For presentations: John Coakley, "Friars as Confidants of Holy Women in Medieval Dominican Hagiography," in Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski and Timea Szell (eds.), Images of Sainthood in Medieval Europe (Ithaca, NY, 1991), pp. 222-246. NB: Coakley has recently greatly expanded this article with new material in his fine book, Women, men, and spiritual power (Columbia Univesity Press, 2005) 8 18 Pilgrimage Primary sources: Stouck, Medieval Saints: A Reader, Chapter 5 Shinners, Medieval Popular Religion, Chapter 4 Secondary Reading Diana Webb, Medieval European Pilgrimage 23, 25 and December 2 Research Reports 9 10 .
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