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Santi, apostoli e patroni. Storie di agiografia e di potere nell’Inghilterra anglosassone
2018
L’agiografia è un potente veicolo di propaganda e i testi agiografici medievali forniscono una chiave di lettura anche riguardo ai temi dell’etnia e dell’identità dei popoli germanici. Per quanto riguarda il mondo germanico riveste particolare rilievo il culto di quei santi che appaiono più strettamente legati alle formazioni politiche che vanno emergendo in Europa occidentale. Si tratta di culti sostenuti dalle autorità non solo ecclesiastiche ma anche e soprattutto civili, dai sovrani e dai loro entourage. Non si tratta in ogni caso di movimenti prodromici alla affermazione di culti sovraregionali o all’introduzione del concetto di patrono nel senso pieno del termine. I casi presi in esam…
Adolfo Longhitano, Il vescovo di Catania Antonio Faraone (1530-1572). Tra fama di santit e governo pastorale, Trapani, il Pozzo di Giacobbe, 2019 (D…
2022
Il volume pone questioni stimolanti, in particolare in merito alla costruzione dei modelli di santità che rispecchiano e rafforzano la coeva sensibilità religiosa, quando non ne creano di nuova. In questo contesto storiografico emerge chiaramente l’utilità euristica delle fonti agiografiche, soprattutto quando queste sono rilette e “corrette” alla luce di altre evidenze documentarie, nel caso in oggetto quelle attinenti la concreta (e spesso contrastata) azione pastorale di vescovi animati da spirito riformatore. The book focuses on stimulating issues, in particular the construction of holiness models that reflect and strengthen the contemporary religious sensibility, or maybe even do creat…
Inuentiones y translationes de S. Mercurio
2019
Inuentiones and translationes of the relics are part of the hagiographic dossier of a saint and provide interesting information about his cult over the centuries. For S. Mercurius of Caesarea the original texts in Greek have been lost, but we have two collections miracles in Coptic that narrate the inuentio and translatio of his relics and there is also a medieval tradition about his translatio to Benevento (Italy). From all these texts is deduced a healing cult of S. Mercurius based on the usual topics.
La figura di Zosima, padre "autorevole", nella leggenda di Maria Egiziaca
2014
The legend of saint Maria Aegyptiaca knew a large diffusion in hagiographical tradition, between East and West, from VI-VII century to the end of the Middle Ages. Together with Maria, father Zosima is the most important figure of the legend (a true “deuteragonist” of the narrative plot). He meets the heremitic woman in the wilderness of Palaestina and has a particular relation with her, founded on deference and devotion, till the death and the engraving of the old Maria. The type of father Zosima, in the various versions of the story, obtains different cures by the poets and the authors. By some select specimens (essentially taked from Hildebertus of Lavardin’s «Vita beate Marie Egiptiace» …
'Preface' al volume Hagiography in Anglo-Saxon Egland
2014
The Preface to the volume Hagiography in Anglo-Saxon England: Adopting and Adapting Saints’ Lives into Old English Prose describes the contents of the essays within the aims of the larger project on Anglo-Saxon and early Middle English hagiography
The Descensus ad inferos in the Old English Prose Life of St Guthlac and Vercelli Homily xxiii
2014
Concetta Giliberto’s essay investigates the motif of the descensus ad inferos in the anonymous Old English version of Felix’s Vita S. Guthlaci and Vercelli Homily xxiii, two texts which have been shown to be independently derived from a now lost vernacular translation of the Latin Vita. Apart from some differences in the two texts, the account of the devilish persecution of St Guthlac culminating in the episode of the descensus ad inferos is a most revealing case study of the Anglo-Saxon appropriation of the hagiographic genre, in that one of the most classical topoi of the saints’ lives narratives, that is the struggle with demons, itself demonstrably traceable to the very foundational hag…
'Forgotten Missionaries: St Augustine of Canterbury in Anglo-Saxon and Post-Conquest England’
2014
The essay provides a full overview of the alternate fortune of the cult of St Augustine of Canterbury and other missionaries, who hold a distinctive place in Anglo-Saxon hagiography. The essay takes into examination both literary and liturgical witnesses and both pre- and post-Conquest texts, in Latin and the vernacular. The narrative of the mission and of Augustine himself offered by Bede, although inevitably partial, shaped all the successive representations of the saint in the few literary witnesses dating from the Anglo-Saxon period. The Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum will remain the major source also in post-Conquest England and be largely drawn upon by Goscelin. For its part, …
Some data on the transmission of the lives of saints between the Middle Ages and the modern era in the Crown of Aragon
2019
En l’edat mitjana les vides de sants eren models a seguir, exemples en els sermonaris i en els textos didacticodoctrinals. La popularitat d’aquestes vides es reflecteix en les arts plàstiques i visuals, en la literatura i en la cultura popular. A través de l’exemple de la transmissió escrita de tres vides de sants incloses en la traducció catalana de la Legenda aurea, presentem en aquest treball una aproximació a la manera en què es difonien aquelles vides, que circulaven de manera individual o integrades en compilacions i que podien oferir versions diferents en cada cas. La repercussió d’aquelles vides perviu en l’època moderna, que les recull en forma de composicions en vers, obres de tea…
Il convertito che opera conversioni: san Dionigi nel «Dionysius» di Rosvita di Gandersheim
2016
In her seventh hagiographical poem, «Dionysius» (or «Passio sancti Dionysii egregii martyris»), Hrotsvit of Gandersheim (935-973) elaborates in 266 rhymed hexameters a story already told in the «Vita sancti Dionysii» of Hilduinus, abbot of Saint-Denis, composed about 835 by order of the emperor Louis the Pious, to whom he is devoted. Hrotsvit, in this work, presents the figure of Dionysius as a convert by the apostle Paulus, who consecrates his new Christian life to the conversion of the Pagans, until his martyrdom (which is under the topic of “cephalologie”, a recurring theme in classical and medieval lore). The poem has a big interest, both historical and literary. The paper presents and …
The secularization of Marian miracles in Miquel Peres’ La vida de la Verge Maria
2017
En aquest treball analitze el conjunt de miracles marians inclosos per Miquel Peres en La vida de la sacratíssima Verge Maria (València, N. Spindeler, 1494). Aquest conjunt de miracles no només destaca per la funcionalitat concreta que adquireixen en l’estructura de l’obra, sinó perquè, a més, aquests mostren unes característiques determinades que els allunyen de les col·leccions de miracula marians, ja que no presenten alguns dels trets més significatius del gènere. Els miracles de Miquel Peres constitueixen una mostra de la transformació i la secularització del gènere, i ens parlen dels nous usos que se’n deriven i dels nous lectors a qui s’adrecen. In this paper I discuss the whole of Ma…