In order to make the directory more useful to members, we are using a system that attempts to classify all researchers' projects and publications by subject area.

Before sending in your form, then, please take a few extra minutes to ponder the two menus given below, including the recent clarifications in bold print. Then indicate both a subject area and a geographical/temporal category for each publication and current project you are reporting, plus a FEW cross-references if appropriate. (If you have suggestions for revising the lists of categories, please send those too.)

Menu A. Subject areas:

[Hagiography] Manuscripts, textual studies, editions, translations of hagiographical texts

[Hagiography] Questions of genre, audience, conventions of hagiographical texts

[Hagiography] Saints' legends as sources for historians (and social historians)

[Hagiography] Modern theoretical approaches to hagiographical texts

Saints' legends in relation to other genres

Other religious literature

History of the cult of saints

Church history

History of Christian thought

Mysticism and spirituality

Gender issues

Visual images and iconography

Relics, shrines, pilgrimages

Miracles

Popular religion and folklore

Saints as patrons

Political dimensions of cults

Liturgy

Preaching

Manuscript catalogs, bibliographies, and databases

Other [please specify]

Menu B. Geographical/temporal divisions:

General (more than twoof the following categories)

Ancient World, General

Early Church, Western

Early Church, Eastern

British Isles

Byzantine Empire

Central Europe

China

Eastern Europe

France

Germany

Iberia

Italy

Latin America

Low Countries

Near East

North Africa

Russia

Scandinavia (incl. Iceland)

Other (please specify)

Religious Orders (please specify)

Post-Medieval