Faire connaissance avec une mulier religiosa dans les Pays-Bas méridionaux du xiiie siècle by Anne-Laure Méril-Bellini delle Stelle

“…In the thirteenth-century Southern Low Countries, the mulieres religiosae played an important part in religious life and were fervently wanted to be met, since they were well known for being great thaumaturgists or intercessors “sending God” to anybody. Their hagiographer provide evidence of this, by through scenes of first meeting which illuminate in a new light the principles of sociability of these devout women. …”
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Un huis clos de papier. Du « Livret des Enfants-Assistés » à La Légende dorée. by Véronique Cnockaert

“…We will unravel the esthetic and poetic tensions, both in the preparatory file and the novel, created by this passage from the administrative to the legendary, that pulls the Naturalist novel towards a hagiographic scenario.…”
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Représenter le passage dans l’au‑delà : les images de rites funéraires sur les tombeaux (xiii e‑xiv e siècles) by Haude Morvan

“…It also highlights the two-way influences between funerary art and hagiographic iconography, which reveal how porous was the boundary between the saint and the prestigious deceased in the Middle Ages.…”
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Dispute over precedence and protocol: Hagiography and forgery in 19th-century Ethiopia by Habtamu Mengistie Tegegne

“…The study will also closely analyze the judicial assembly’s handling of Gädlä Abreha wäAṣebha, a forged hagiographic text that was presented to the court by Märtulä Maryam as evidence to defend its claims to precedency and status. …”
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Legal realities of the Golden Horde Crimea through the eyes of foreign contemporaries by Roman Pochekaev

“…., correspondence of rulers, historical chronicles and hagiographic works based the information of eye-witnesses. …”
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Les mémoires d’une automobile (pas) comme les autres. La Coccinelle VW et ses mises en histoire by Pierre LANNOY

“…The article then details four memorial channels by which the Beetle is given a history : a hagiographic channel, in which it becomes an object of passion, being unique in the automotive history ; an academic channel, in which it is seized as an object of research calling for epistemologically founded interpretations ; a political channel, in which the Beetle calls for moral judgments on the part of culturally situated individuals ; an iconic channel, transforming it in a semiotic object feeding aesthetic interpretations. …”
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Thomas Aquinas’ definition of the imago Dei and the development of lifelike portraiture  by Dominic Olariu

“…It also refers to contemporary practices in rituals and hagiographic believes to show the relevance of these ideas outside the strictly philosophical and theoretical sphere. …”
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L’Angleterre et l’Écosse au miroir de la fureur : L’Écossaise d’Antoine de Montchrestien et Marie Stuard de Charles Regnault by Frédéric Sprogis

“…Lastly, the issues at stake are of a hagiographic nature, as French playwrights celebrated the Catholic Queen as the innocent victim of the executioner that Elizabeth I had become.…”
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Essai de recherche d’une typologie de la sainte mystique dans l’islam et le christianisme à partir de l’étude de cas de Rabia Adawiyya by Claude-Brigitte Carcenac

“…The study focuses on a noteworthy eighth-century figure of Sufism, Rabia al-Adawiyya, and examines her case in four aspects : the hagiographic account of a saint’s life in its three main stages (birth, the taking up of a saintly life, death), the forms that the quest for divine love takes, the manifestations of the divine calling, and finally, the place of mysticism in a man-centered environment.…”
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Ansanus “the Baptizer” and the Problem of Siena’s Non-Existent Early Episcopacy (c. 1100–1600) by Carol A. Anderson

“…Seemingly confirming this assessment, the Sienese Church possessed no hagiographic tradition of early bishops that would prove that their urban settlement was a true <i>civitas</i> in late antiquity. …”
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« Pour le remède des âmes » : la chapelle du cimetière de l’hôpital Saint-Jacques de Cuiseaux et son décor peint by Denise Borlée

“…On the same principle, a real statue of Jacques le Majeur, surmounted by a painted canopy in greyness and formerly polychromatic, takes part in the hagiographic procession. With the founders of the chapel represented to its feet, the superiority of the patron saint on the other saints only painted is clear. …”
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The “necessary death” of the Grand Duke: on the question of the causes and circumstances of the death of Yaroslav Vsevolodovich in the autumn of 1246 by Vorotyntsev L.V., Galimov T.R.

“…Research materials: The research draws from a complex of Russian chronicle sources, monuments of ”hagiographic” literature from Ancient Rus’, Plano Carpini’s “The History of the Mongols,” Rashid al-Din’s “The Collection of Chronicles,” Juvayni Ata-Malik’s “The History of the Conqueror of the World,” and acts of diplomatic correspondence. …”
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Du lexique aux talismans : occurrences de la peste dans la Corne de l’Afrique du XIIIe au XVe siècle by Marie-Laure Derat

“…The Saints embody figures of miraculous healing, and the reading during Mass services of hagiographic texts dedicated to these Saints provided hope to the victims of the pandemics. …”
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