Gaulâs Insiders: Hagiography and Entitlement

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Merovingian hagiography was a formative political discourse at a time when the kingdom was open to social restructuring, but the textsâ vision is also incomplete. On the one hand, Merovingian hagiographers were interested in redefining what kind of material and moral resources entitled people to wield political power, so their understanding of politics could be capacious. On the other hand, they quietly excluded other perspectives in the process of identifying what good government and its elite operators should look like. Two examples of selectivity that are especially interesting are hagiographersâ deliberate silences about commercial activity and warfare. Thinking about the forms of power that hagiography doesnât acknowledge is a good way to assess the opportunities and limits of this literature, and to explain how it worked to reshape its worldânot so much by idealizing certain types of individuals or groups but by representing certain frames of action as consequential and valuable.

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Hagiography and the History of Latin Christendom, 500â1500

Series:Â Reading Medieval Sources, Volume: 4

E-Book ISBN:: 9789004417472

Publisher:: Brill

Print Publication Date:: 18 Dec 2019

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