Dominic Marner. St Cuthbert: His Li...

Dominic Marner. St Cuthbert: His Life and ceremonial in Medieval Durham. Toronto: U of Toronto P 2000 112 pp 50 color, 13 b/w plates and figures. ISBN 0-8020-3518-3 $3500

The earthly lives of saints are generally considered to belong to the genre of hagiography rather than biography for several religious reasons: the dies natalis, the "birthday" of the saint, is actually the day of mortal death; the saint's "life," at least in certain kinds of activity--notably, defending his acknowledge church and physical remains, defining the boundaries of ecclesiastical one's own ...