Learning from the Saints: Ninth-Century Hagiography and the Carolingian Renaissance
Amy K. Bosworth
Abstract In the early Middle Ages (c.500–1000) in Western Europe, saints played a vital role lives of all Christians. Everyone regardless status or gender believed their power to cure suffering, protect faithful, and castigate wicked. Hagiography, stories holy dead, celebrated helped maintain validate cults. For historians, these texts provide insight not only into practice Christianity, but also social political landscape time. During ninth century, many authors hagiography participated benefitted from royal program reform centered on education uniformity. Yet, reflect continuation predominance regional concerns limitations message uniformity so‐called Carolingian Renaissance.
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