Hagiographies: Histoire internationale de la litterature hagiographique latine et vernaculaire en Occident des origines a 1550 (Vol. III).(Book Review)

ed. Guy Philippart (Turnhout: Brepols, 2001; pp. 462. Eur 155)

This is the third of four projected volumes which, when completed, will offer a handbook of Latin and vernacular hagiographical literature throughout the pre-Tridentine Roman Catholic church, a reference project designed as a hagiographical equivalent to the handy slim booklets of the Typologie des sources du Moyen Age occidental Although the set of volumes has a firm internal structure balancing geographical, chronological and linguistic subdivisions, chapters are being published as they are finished without regard to their placement in the overall schema, as already noted in the review of volume one (ante, cxii [1997], p. 427). With chapters in English, French and Italian, the most recent volume is an admirable sampler …