Imagining the Sacred Past

Hagiography and Power in Early Normandy

Samantha Kahn Herrick

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$71.50 • £57.95 • €64.50

ISBN 9780674024434

Publication Date: 03/31/2007

Short

272 pages

6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches

1 map, 1 genealogical chart

Harvard Historical Studies

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Acknowledgments
Genealogical chart: Rulers of Normandy, 911–1087
Map: Eleventh-century Normandy
Introduction
1. Placing the Texts in Time
2. Individual Appeal: Explaining the Interest in Taurinus, Vigor, and Nicasius
3. Imagining the Past of the Evrecin: The Vita Taurini
4. Reshaping History in the Bessin: The Vita Vigoris
5. Claiming the Heritage of the French Vexin: The Passio Nicasii
6. Broader Perspective: The Norman Vision of the Distant Past and Contemporary Hagiography
Conclusion
Appendix 1: Manuscripts of the Vita Taurini and Vita Vigoris
Appendix 2: Transmission of the Passio Nicasii
Notes
Bibliography
Index

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