2004, Rosalind C. Love,Goscelin of Saint-Bertin: The Hagiography of the Female Saints of Ely,→ISBN:
The second half of the eleventh century saw a notable surge of interest inhagiography throughout England, which meant that many of the Anglo-Saxon saints of earlier eras were furnished, often for the first time, with a Latin Vita.
2005, Thomas Head,Hagiography and the Cult of Saints: The Diocese of Orléans, 800-1200,→ISBN:
Jacques LeGoff remarks, 'Hagiography tells us much about the mental infrastructure [of the middle ages]: the interpenetration between the tangible world and the supernatural world, the common nature of the corporeal and psychic, are the conditions which make miracles and related phenomena possible.
2014, Jamie Kreiner,The Social Life of Hagiography in the Merovingian Kingdom,→ISBN, page189:
Charters, wills, and monastic rules offer evidence for this transformation, but it ishagiography and its double-scoped discourse that illuminates it best, and we will start with avita that pursued the question of peroperty and prestige more comprehensively than the rest, theVita Sadalbergae.
This 'cultivated characteriology' (ibid., p. 117) is one that she suggests has been reduced to the cult of the theorist's personality in many of thehagiographies written about Foucault, missing how he cultivated his ethos or characteriology in order to persuade, seduce, unsettle, question, and so forth.
