Lives of the Saints: The Medieval French Hagiography Project / Profile
Home Page: http://www.frenchsaintslives.org
Focus
Scholarly Content
Overview
When complete, Lives of the Saints will consist of two major components: an internet-accessible catalog containing extensive textual, historical and material information about medieval French hagiography (Part I) and a collection of hypertext editions and translations of Lives with images of their manuscripts (Part II).
The catalog will describe the approximately 280 medieval saints’ Lives written in French between the beginning of French literature (c. 880 C.E.) and the end of the Middle Ages (c. 1500 C.E.), as well as the approximately 630 manuscripts that contain those Lives. Moreover, it will provide substantial contextual information about both Lives and manuscripts. In order to make all this information accessible, we are building a collection of analytic tools that will permit both specific and comparative searching.
People
Amy V. Ogden: Project Director & IATH Fellow
Worthy Martin: Database & interface design
Daniel Pitti: Database & interface design
Caroline Gates: Database & interface design, project construction
Robbie Bingler: Database design & construction
Felicia Johnson: Interface design
Research Assistants: Margaret Caldwell, Kate DeNeveu, Rachel Geer, Tiffany Stull
Sponsors
The Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities
The UVA Department of French
The Offices of the Dean of Arts and Sciences
The Vice President for Research and Graduate Studies
