Contact:
Sherry L. Reames
Department of English
University of Wisconsin
600 North Park Street
Madison, WI 53706 (USA)
Phone (608) 262-7836
FAX (608) 263-3709
E-mail: slreames@wisc.edu
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Welcome to the web site of the Hagiography Society.
The Hagiography Society was founded in North America in 1990 to promote communication among scholars in various disciplines whose research involves the study of early Christian or medieval saints' legends. By December 1995 our mailing list had grown to include nearly 500 scholars, over 100 of them from Europe and the U.K. and most of the rest from the U.S. and Canada.
Each year the Society publishes two or three issues of its newsletter, plus an annual directory of researchers in hagiography and related fields, which includes bibliographical information on recent publications and a list of works in progress as well as the researchers' contact information. Besides issuing these publications, the Society holds an annual business meeting and organizes three or four paper sessions at the International Congress on Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo, Michigan, each May.
On the other side of the Atlantic, we sponsored multiple sessions at the International Medieval
Congresses at the University of Leeds in 1994, 1995, 1999, and 2003, held a small international symposium of our own in England in July 1998, co-sponsored another symposium with the Dutch society of hagiographers in Groningen in July 2000, and are co-sponsoring a third symposium in June 2004 with the Medieval Studies Department of the Central European University in Budapest. We hope to find additional ways of working cooperatively with our colleagues and fellow societies in the U.K., Europe, and elsewhere in the world.
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