The Hagiography Society is collecting materials that will support our members in their varied teaching commitments related to the study of holy people and their worlds. We are seeking the following teaching-related materials related to hagiography, broadly conceived:
syllabi, single lesson plans, bibliographies, podcasts, and videos. If you have items to share, please complete this form which will also allow you to upload files.  Click here to complete the Google form.  We are excited to build this resource, which will be made available to members here on the Hagiography Society website. Thank you in advance for your contribution! If you have suggestions or questions, please submit them to Lydia Walker (lmwalker@barton.edu).

Resources For Research And Teaching On Medieval Saints

Thomas Head’s Essays on Hagiography from the ORB Website: The late Thomas Head’s introductory essays and bibliographies on hagiographical topics, which were published on ORB.net, are beloved by many scholars and teachers.  With the ORB website now defunct, the Hagiography Society embarked on a process to make these essays once again available to the general public in a manner allowed by the copyright permissions after consulting with the estate of Tom Head and the former host institution of ORB.  The essays appear below as PDF files.  Please note that highlighted text in the files indicating links will not work, but the essays and bibliographies themselves are otherwise preserved as they had been published.

• Thomas Head: “Hagiography”
• Thomas Head: “The Cult of the Saints and Their Relics”
• Thomas Head: “Women and Hagiography in Medieval Christianity”
• Thomas Head: “The Development of Hagiography and the Cult of the Saints in Western Christendom to the Year 1000”
• Thomas Head: “The Development of Hagiography and the Cult of the Saints in the Later Middle Ages: The Example of the Kingdom of France from the Capetian Accession to the Reformation”
• Thomas Head: “The Holy Person in Comparative Perspective”
• Thomas Head: “An Introductory Guide to Research in Medieval Hagiography”
• Thomas Head: “A Brief Guide to Scholarship on Western Hagiography”
• Thomas Head: “The Legacy of Andre Vauchez’s Sainthood in the Later Middle Ages”
• Thomas Head: “Bibliographies” – This is a single file of circa 100 pages that compiles the contents of ten different bibliographies that he created and made available online (all copyright 1999).  The contents include: A Guide to the Sources of Late Antique and Medieval Hagiography; The Cult of the Saints in the Late Roman Empire; The Cult of the Saints in the Barbarian Kingdoms; The Cult of the Saints in the Carolingian Empire; The Cult of the Saints from the Tenth through the Twelfth Centuries; New Saints of the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries; Female Sanctity in the Later Middle Ages; The Mendicant Orders and Sanctity in the Later Middle Ages; The Culture of Devotion in the Later Middle Ages; and A General Bibliography for Research in the History of Medieval Christianity.
• Internet Medieval Sourcebook (with many hagiographical texts in translation)
• Labyrinth: Resources for Medieval Studies
• Peregrinations: International Society for the Study of Pilgrimage Art
• International Center of Medieval Art (The Cloisters, New York City)
• PECIA: Resources on medieval manuscripts (mostly in French)
• International Medieval Sermon Studies Society
• Byzantine Hagiography Database
• Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index (also known as Medieval Feminist Index)
• Black Central Europe (includes documents about St. Maurice)
• Acta Sanctorum (Index and text files)
• Coptic Synaxarium (Index and text files)
• Translations of Byzantine Saint’s Lives
• Black Saints in the Early Modern Hispanic World (podcast with Prof. Erin Rowe)
• Mapping Miracles Project at Cambridge University
• Saints and Geography (Iceland and elsewhere)
• Monastic Matrix (A collection of resources for the study of women’s religious communities 500-1500).

Some Websites Dedicated To Individual Saints And Their Cults

• St. Roch (in Italian, with links to French and English versions)
• St. Moses the Strong / the Ethiopian
• St. Vincent of Saragossa

Quick Sources Of Information On Many Saints

• Saints.SQPN.com
• “Saints, Martyrs, and Other Holy Persons” (Catholic Information Network)
• Catholic Encyclopedia online (1908 edition)
• Saints (American Catholic.org)

Other Hagiographical Societies And Work Groups

• Bollandists: Saints and History (Société des Bollandistes, Belgium)
• Arbeitskreis für hagiographische Fragen (Germany)
• Associazione Italiana per lo studio della Santità, dei Culti e dell’ Agiografia (Italy)
• CMBA:Corpus de la Bourgogne du Moyen Âge, Corpus hagiographique bourguignon  (France)
• Hagiologia: Atelier belge d’études sur la sainteté (Belgium)
• Coordinación de la Edición de la Hagiografía Castellana (Spain)
• Episcopus: Society for the Study of Episcopal Power and Culture in the Middle Ages
• Mysticism and Lived Experience Network