Vita Vel Regula: Multifunctional Hagiography in the Early Middle Ages

Albrecht Diem

doi:10.1163/9789004417472_008

Vita Vel Regula: Multifunctional Hagiography in the Early Middle Ages

Albrecht Diem

Department of History

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This chapter explores the use of hagiographic texts as 'Vitae vel regulae', i.e. as narrated monastic rules and monastic programs. It focuses especially on the Life of Antony, the Life of Martin, the Life of the Jura Fathers, the Life of Pacomius and Walahfrid Strabo's Life of Gallus and explores the different textual strategies to convey monastic ideals and the different concepts of normativity and regular observance developed in these texts.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Hagiography and the History of Latin Christendom, 500–1500
Place of Publication	Leiden
Publisher	Brill Academic Publishers
Pages	123-142
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004417472_008
State	Published - Dec 18 2019

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hagiography, monastic rules

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History

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