Making and Unmaking of a Saint

Mathew Kuefler is Professor of History at San Diego State University, editor of the Journal of the History of Sexuality, and author of The Manly Eunuch: Masculinity, Gender Ambiguity, and Christian Ideology in Late Antiquity.

"Kuefler's completely convincing redating and reattribution of all the earliest writings about Gerald will need to be taken on board by everyone who works on Western Europe in the Central Middle Ages. His careful rethinking of received views on the subject not only tells us much about important figures of the era (above all Odo of Cluny and Ademar of Chabannes), but also serves as a model of historicized textual criticism. . . . This is an important book." (American Historical Review) "All historians of medieval monasticism know about Gerald of Aurillac-or at least we think we do. Mathew Kuefler has written a very original work on Gerald, redating and reattributing the vitae that form the basis of his fame. The book is gracefully written, well argued, and well documented." (Constance Brittain Bouchard, University of Akron)

• Note on NamesMaps 1 and 2Introduction: Hagiography, Memory, HistoryChapter 1. Prolegomenon on the Dating and Authorship of the Writings about Gerald of AurillacChapter 2. The First Saint GeraldChapter 3. The Second Saint GeraldChapter 4. Saint Gerald and the Swell of HistoryChapter 5. Saint Gerald and the Ebb of HistoryChapter 6. The Modern Cult of Saint GeraldConclusion: Memory, Sanctity, ViolenceAppendix 1: Translation of the Vita sancti Geraldi breviorAppendix 2: The Manuscripts of the Vita GeraldiNotesBibliographyIndex