{"id":97,"date":"2013-03-16T15:15:33","date_gmt":"2013-03-16T21:15:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hagiographysociety.org\/wp\/?page_id=97"},"modified":"2025-09-15T08:35:43","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T14:35:43","slug":"recent-news","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.hagiographysociety.org\/?page_id=97","title":{"rendered":"News"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-1 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Newsletter<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Join our <a href=\"#mailing_list\">Mailing List<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hagiographysociety.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Newsletter-Aug-25.pdf\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.hagiographysociety.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Newsletter-Aug-25.pdf\">Current Newsletter: Vol. XXXV Issue 2 ~ August 2025<\/a><br>The newsletter includes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>Article Prize announcement<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Calls for Papers for Hagiography Society-sponsored sessions at IMC-Kalamazoo<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>A guest column by Kathryn Gerry<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>New books &amp; recent articles<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Full Listing<\/strong> (printable PDF versions)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hagiographysociety.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Newsletter-Aug-25.pdf\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.hagiographysociety.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Newsletter-Aug-25.pdf\">August 2025<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hagiographysociety.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Newsletter-April-25.pdf\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.hagiographysociety.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Newsletter-April-25.pdf\">April 2025<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a 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2021<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hagiographysociety.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Hagiography-Society-News-Vol.-XXX-Issue-3.pdf\">December 2020<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hagiographysociety.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/August-2020-HS-Newsletter.pdf\">August 2020<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hagiographysociety.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/April-2020-HS-Newsletter.pdf\">April 2020<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hagiographysociety.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/December-19-2019-HS-Newsletter.pdf\">December 2019<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hagiographysociety.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/August-2019-HS-Newsletter.pdf\">August 2019<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hagiographysociety.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/April-17-2019-HS-Newsletter.pdf\">April 2019<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a 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href=\"http:\/\/www.hagiographysociety.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/newsletter_2010_12.pdf\">December 2010<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hagiographysociety.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/newsletter_2010_07.pdf\">July 2010<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hagiographysociety.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/newsletter_2010_03.pdf\">March 2010<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Guest Columns<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>August 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hagiographysociety.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Gerry-Article-Aug25.pdf\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.hagiographysociety.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Gerry-Article-Aug25.pdf\">Pictorial Lives of Saints \u2013 Illustration or Adaptation?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kathryn Gerry, Bowdoin College<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Medieval Europeans quickly figured out that manuscript copies of saints\u2019 <em>Lives <\/em>were much more captivating if they included pictures\u2014even when they were made for the <em>literati<\/em>\u2014and copies of saints\u2019 <em>Lives <\/em>adorned with series of images began to appear, mostly in association with Benedictine monasteries, in the tenth century. This article examines the Guthlac Roll (BL Harley Roll Y 6) and the Book of St. Albans (Trinity College Dublin MS 177) as key examples of this sort of pictorial hagiography.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>April 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hagiographysociety.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Vucovic-Article-April-25.pdf\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.hagiographysociety.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Vucovic-Article-April-25.pdf\"><strong>On Jesus as a Trickster Child, and the Unpredictable Narratives in Medieval Manuscripts<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Marijana Vukovi\u0107, University of Southern Denmark<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The apocryphal <em>Infancy Gospel of Thomas <\/em>shows an unexpected side to Jesus &#8211; that of mischievous boy. This text has a long and surprisingly complex textual history from second-century references to contemporary film adaptations.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>December 2024<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hagiographysociety.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Guest-Column-Dec24.pdf\">A Fresh Look at Reginald of Durham\u2019s <em>Life and Miracles of Saint Godric, Hermit of Finchale<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lauren Colwell, The Ohio State University<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Maragaret Coombe\u2019s 2022 translation, <em>The Life and Miracles of Saint Godric, Hermit of Finchale <\/em>published by Oxford Medieval Texts now offers us a complete translation of the narrative of Godric\u2019s life by Reginald of Durham, all five hundred plus printed pages of it. This full translation offers scholars a complete view of the saint, one much different from the kindly figure of the miraculous fish episode.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hagiographysociety.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Guest-Column-Dec24.pdf\">Read more &gt;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>April 2024<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hagiographysociety.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Guest-Column-Smoller.pdf\">The Mysteries Embedded in a Manuscript Miracle Collection<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Laura Ackerman Smoller, University of Rochester, N.Y. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As students of hagiography, we know that our sources can illuminate a wide range of topics. That simple point was brought home to me when I spent time with a manuscript recently acquired by the institution where I teach (uncatalogued manuscript, Department of Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, University of Rochester).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hagiographysociety.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Guest-Column-Smoller.pdf\">Read more &gt;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>December 2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hagiographysociety.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Guest-column-Herrick-Hagiography-Society.pdf\"><strong>Of Saints and Shadows<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Samantha K. Herrick, Syracuse University, N.Y. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After several years of pursuing Saint Fronto of P\u00e9rigueux, I started seeing him everywhere. Or, at least, I began finding references to him in unexpected places, such as texts and artworks honoring other saints. He turned up, for instance, in the <em>vita <\/em>of Martha of Bethany, whom he purportedly accompanied from Judea to Gaul (along with her supposed sister, Mary Magdalen, and about a dozen other saints).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hagiographysociety.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Guest-column-Herrick-Hagiography-Society.pdf\">Read more &gt;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>August 2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hagiographysociety.org\/?page_id=1542\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Saintly Reparations<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Barbara Newman, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What penance, what payment, could possibly compensate for the horrors of slavery\u2014or of<br>colonialism, or the Holocaust? Clearly none. Yet few public issues of our time arouse more controversy than this matter of reparations. The recent firestorm over the fall of affirmative action is a case in point. Even when the original wrong seems beyond repair, we feel a profound moral need to do something, to perform some kind of public penance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hagiographysociety.org\/?page_id=1542\">Read more &gt;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>December 2022<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hagiographysociety.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Michael-Hahn.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Manuscript and Material Evidence for the Sources and Reception of Angela of Foligno: an Umbrian Adventure<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Michael Hahn, Sarum College, Salisbury<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In collaboration with Franciscan friars, the little-known Angela of Foligno \u2013 an Umbrian laywoman who died in 1309 but was only canonized very recently in 2013 \u2013 produced 37 mystical-theological texts. The originals, however, are not known to us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hagiographysociety.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Michael-Hahn.pdf\">Read more &gt;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>August 2022<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-medium-font-size\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hagiographysociety.org\/?page_id=1422\">The Power of the Locale and the Revisitation of Late Medieval Sainthood<\/a><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Carmen Florea, Babe\u015f-Bolyai University, Romania<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A paradoxical image emerges from a comparison of parochial patron saints with mendicant saints in late medieval Transylvania. Neither the Dominicans nor Franciscans\u2014the great modernizers of sanctity\u2014chose to promote saints of their own orders by making them the patrons of local churches.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hagiographysociety.org\/?page_id=1422\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Read more&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>April 2022<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-medium-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hagiographysociety.org\/?page_id=1338\">Imagining \u201cChildhood&#8221; in Cistercian Hagiography<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Jacob W. Doss, <a href=\"mailto:jacobwdoss@utexas.edu\">jacobwdoss@utexas.edu<\/a> University of Texas at Austin<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In my research on twelfth-century Cistercian understandings of masculinity, Cistercian notions of childhood and youth constantly appeared alongside both articulations of femininity and masculinity. Authors like Bernard of Clairvaux (d. 1153), Aelred of Rievaulx (d. 1167), and the eventual Cistercian, William of Saint-Thierry (d. 1148), to name just a few, consistently imagined childhood&#8230;..<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hagiographysociety.org\/?page_id=1338\">Read more&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>December 2021<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hagiographysociety.org\/?page_id=1359\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Translating to Resist Betrayals<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Amy Ogden, Department of French, University of Virginia<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>How would modern ideas of the Middle Ages shift if every member of the Hagiography Society,<br>alone or working in groups, published a translation of a hagiographic text? . . . <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hagiographysociety.org\/?page_id=1359\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Read more&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>December 2020<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-query is-layout-flow wp-block-query-is-layout-flow\"><ul class=\"wp-block-post-template is-layout-flow wp-block-post-template-is-layout-flow\"><li class=\"wp-block-post post-1309 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-newsletter\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hagiographysociety.org\/?p=1309\" target=\"_self\" >Diocletian the Egyptian?<\/a><\/h2>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt\">ASSISTANT PROF. FELEGE-SELAM YIRGA, FYIRGA@UTK.EDU The University of Tennessee, Knoxville And when Diocletian the Egyptian became emperor, the army turned to give its help to this impious man and persecutor of the faithful and the most wicked of all men\u2026&hellip;Read more &#8250; <\/p><\/div>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>August 2021<\/p>\n\n<\/li><li class=\"wp-block-post post-1307 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-newsletter\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hagiographysociety.org\/?p=1307\" target=\"_self\" >Outlier Saints: The Case of Zita of Lucca<\/a><\/h2>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt\">Outlier Saints: The Case of Zita of Lucca by Mary Harvey Doyno (Humanities &amp; Religious Studies, California State University, Sacramento) In my book The Lay Saint: Charity and Charismatic Authority in Medieval Italy, 1150-1350 (Cornell Univ. Press, 2019) I dedicate&hellip;Read more &#8250; <\/p><\/div>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>August 2021<\/p>\n\n<\/li><li class=\"wp-block-post post-1311 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-newsletter\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hagiographysociety.org\/?p=1311\" target=\"_self\" >Embedded Hagiography: Teaching the vita of Guibert de Nogent\u2019s Mother<\/a><\/h2>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt\">PROF. KAREN WINSTEADWINSTEAD.2@OSU.EDU, THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY One of the many fascinating features of Guibert de Nogent\u2019s Monodies is the remarkably detailed portrait Guibert paints of his mother, whom he represents in distinctly hagiographical terms. I have twice now incorporated&hellip;Read more &#8250; <\/p><\/div>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>August 2021<\/p>\n\n<\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Remembering our Members<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Tom Head: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hagiographysociety.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/obit-Tom.doc\">Head obituary by Steve Kruger<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jacques LeGoff: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hagiographysociety.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Le-Goff-obituary-by-Gabor-Klaniczay.pdf\">Le Goff obituary by Gabor Klaniczay<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Maureen A. Tilley: <a title=\"Tilley obituary by J. Patrick Hornbeck II\" href=\"http:\/\/www.fordham.edu\/info\/23060\/faculty\/8491\/faculty_spotlight\/4\">Tilley obituary by J. 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