Making and Unmaking of a Saint: Hagiography and Memory in the Cult of Gerald of Aurillac by Mathew Kuefler

Making and Unmaking of a Saint: Hagiography and Memory in the Cult of Gerald of Aurillac

Middle Ages

Mathew Kuefler

306 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction history religion dark mysterious medium-paced

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A crusader, a hermit, a bishop, a plague victim, and even a repentant murderer by turns: the stories attached to Saint Gerald of Aurillac offer a strange and fragmented legacy. His two earliest biographies, written in the early tenth and early ele...

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