The Legends of the Saints: an Introduction to Hagiography
Hippolyte Delehaye, tr. V. M. Crawford · 1907 · Modern scholarship · public-domain-translation
13 claims in this dataset rest on this source.
Glosses drawn from it
- How a passion gets written transmission
- The saint who never was transmission
- What a feast day is evidence for calendar
How the record stands on them
- Catherine of Alexandria legendary — p. 111, ch. IV — the classification of texts
- Saint George legendary — p. 145 — the warrior saints, of whom 'the only literary monuments in which we can inform ourselves concerning most of them are documents of the same class as those which constitute the legend of Procopius'
What else rests on it
8 gloss subjects
The Bollandist's short book on how a saint's legend is manufactured — what happens to a name, a day and a place as they pass from a calendar entry through a panegyric into a passion, and why so much hagiography is worth so little as evidence for the person it names. CRAWFORD'S 1907 ENGLISH, NOT THE FRENCH.