Mathew Kuefler: 1 book
The Making and Unmaking of a Saint
Hagiography and Memory in the Cult of Gerald of Aurillac
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
A crusader, a hermit, a bishop, a plague victim, and even a repentant murderer by turns: the stories attached to Saint Gerald of Aurillac offer a strange and fragmented legacy. His two earliest biographies, written in the early tenth and early eleventh centuries, depicted the saint as a warrior who...
