Saints, teachers, princes and students -- Forging sanctity: Hilduin of Saint-Denis and the epic Passio Dionysii -- Glossing the imaginary: epic Vitae in the classroom -- Classical nightmares: Christian poets and the pagan past -- Bishops, monks and mother bees: an epic Vita at the millennium -- Mothers and daughters, affiliation and conflict in the lives of Rictrude and Eusebia -- "Black seeds on a white field" -- St. Gallen, stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 265 -- Douai bibliotheque municipale MS 849
Summary
This is the first book to focus on Latin epic verse saints' lives in their medieval historical contexts
