Saint Herménégilde et Récarède : succession au trône et conflit adelphique dans La mayor corona de Mira de Amescua by Marion Duchesne

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Judíos, conversos y relapsos en la hagiografía narrativa tardoantigua hispana by Pedro CASTILLO MALDONADO

“…But, how did the hagiographical writers know the social and juridical reality of the Hispanic Jews?…”
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Alfonso X, Bernardo de Brihuega y la General estoria by Francisco Bautista

“…Additionally, a new witness of the first book of his hagiographical compilation in Castilian is described. …”
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Sobre el trasfondo social de la predicación mendicante en Castilla y León (siglo XIII) by Javier Pérez-Embid Wamba

“…Tha Castilian Dominican structures “ex­empla” that he took from his legendary hagiographical work in such orden that more emphasis falls on education of the clergy and less in the world of laymen. …”
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El poder de la Iglesia imperial: el mito de Costantino y el papado romano by Ramón TEJA

“…<br /><br />SUMMARY: The historical shape of the emperor Constantine changed into a hagiographical myth by apologists such as Lactancio or Eusebio of Cesárea during the emperor life and, particularly, afterwards. …”
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Il tardoantico in Italia: lellia cracco ruggnini e la sua scuola by Rita LIZZI TESTA

“…Since her first book on Northern Italy during the lVth-VIth centuries was published, she has paid fresh attention to local and regional history, for which she used all kind of valuable sources: archeological remains, epigraphic and numismatic evidence, christian literature, even hagiographical tales. The life during Late Antiquity of many italian towns (Pavia, Milano, Aquileia, Concordia, Vicenza, Torino, Venezia, Bergamo) is now better known thanks to her studies. …”
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La leyenda hagiográfica medieval: ¿una especial biografía? by Ángeles García de la Borbolla

“…The medieval hagiographic sources are works inspired in the cult of the saints and destined to keeping the memory of those men and women alive within a community. …”
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Elementos teatrales y parateatrales en fiestas hagiográficas barrocas by Ignacio Arellano

“…This article discusses the various theatrical and spectacular elements integrated into the hagiographic celebrations, both paratheatrical and more specifically theatrical performances. …”
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A «minister quem vulgo mimilogum vocant» among the Vascones by Jokin LANZ BETELU

“…Prelate of Maastricht amandus’ hagiographer tells us how the saint was ridiculed by some sort of <em>mimilogus</em> when he was preaching amongst the Vascones of the <em>montes</em> around 636. the passage has attracted the attention of several researchers, generating studies that have focused, generally, on the prelate’s evangelizing mission and on the Vascones’ degree of christianization showing little interest in other aspects of the <em>Vita</em>, such as the presence of a mime. in this study we will try to make an approach to the existence of this mimic actor in Vasconia in the 7^th century, with the aim of linking it as far as possible with other mentions that indicate the popularity of public performances in the territories before belonged to the western roman Empire.…”
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El libro de doña Ana de Zúñiga: nobleza, espiritualidad y cultura en el Monasterio de Jerónimas de San Pablo de Toledo by M. Mar Cortés Timoner

“…Several of the women biographed came from the high nobility of Toledo (or were closely related to it) and, in some cases, became models of spiritual wisdom praised by later reputed hagiographers such as Alonso de Villegas and José de Sigüenza.…”
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Vent d’Est, vent d’Ouest : saints et soufis entre al-Andalus, Maroc et Égypte by Catherine Mayeur-Jaouen

“…From these itineraries between the West and the East, a hagiographic memory emerges, before the memory of Andalus revived by the Egyptian Nahda and Franco's Spain crystallizes around 1900’-1930’.…”
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Algunas consideraciones sobre la predicación medieval a partir de la hagiografía mendicante by Angeles García de la Borbolla

“…Otherwise, these orders created their own hagiographic production, frequently written in Romanic languages and in a low liturgical level; these works contributed to consolidate the main character’s fame for sanctity, and also had an important peda­gogical and catechetical dimension. …”
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“La cosa contraria sana contra la contraria”: ética médica hipocrática en el Flos sanctorum castellano medieval by Marcos Cortés Guadarrama

“…In the Castilian medieval Flos sanctorum, there is a certain influence of the Hippocratic medical ethics, whose hypothesis are disguised in this magnificent work of the hagiographic literature with a Christian morality. This is mainly reflected in some of the doctrinal readings and in certain miracles. …”
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Fray Luis de León, apologeta de Teresa de Jesús en sus paratextos / Luis de León, Apologette of Teresa de Jesús in his Paratexts by Jaume Garau

“…In the first of these paratexts, Fray Luis takes great pains to defend the textual purity of his edition, and at the same time ponders, albeit in a hagiographic code in both letters, the reforming labor of the Saint, under the protection offered by the new model of saintliness emanating from the Council of Trent. …”
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