The Social Life Of Hagiography In The Merovingian Kingdom by Megan Kreiner
A study of how saints’ lives in Merovingian Gaul were produced, circulated, and applied as practical tools that organized communities, legitimized authority, and managed resources. It follows the networks of clerics, monks, aristocrats, and laypeople who created and used these narratives, showing how hagiography shaped memory, law, politics, and economic practice—mediating patronage, property, labor, and conflict resolution—while guiding moral expectations. By tracing the social contexts of composition and reception, it argues that these texts wielded tangible power in everyday life, rather than serving merely as pious literature.
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