Re-Creating a Patron for the Ninth Century:
Amy K. Bosworth
As an act of veneration and celebration, Heiric Auxerre in the 870s compiled story Saint Germanus, a fifth-century bishop patron his monastic community. On surface Miracula sancti Germani follows conventional hagiographical patterns. Yet closer analysis reveals that Miracula's author also sought to demonstrate continuing influential role this saint Carolingian world. Through deliberate calculated use geography, selected specific locations highlight new sphere influence, one reached beyond accepted boundaries responded contemporary political ecclesiastical anxieties. He crafted sacred topography spoke both spiritual needs community (lay ecclesiastical) temporal concerns ninth-century
Journal of Medieval Religious Cultures