Martyrologium Hieronymianum
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The Martyrologium Hieronymianum, the most trustworthy collection of martyrs’ memories bequeathal, is an assemblage of many different sources. The author of this paper tries to extract from that work only the part relating to Italy,... more
[résumé français: ci-dessous] This essay questions two assumptions that have guided the study of martyrologies: the Martyrologium Hieronymianum did not, the author argues, contain any historical entries, which are indeed Bede's creation,... more
This text revisits the question of martyrology versus calendar, taking an early Irish martyrology as a case study and showing how it combines the function of a martyrology (the day on which a holy person died) with that of a calendar... more
Many hagiographical texts were composed in late antique and early medieval Gaul, among them there are two peculiar and interesting hagiographical collections that were composed, approximately, during the same period. The first is the book... more
During the late sixth and early seventh century, two interesting compositions that focus on saints were composed in Merovingian Gaul: the first, the book of the Glory of the Martyrs written by the bishop Gregory of Tours; the second is an... more