This is a study of the place of patron saints in Frankish society
during the Carolingian and early Capetian periods. The book focuses
on the composition of works in praise of dead holy people -
hagiography - and the veneration of their physical remains - the
cult of saints. It examines the patrons of a single diocese,
Orleans, because a saint's power of patronage was defined in terms
of a particular locale. Beyond the documentation of this region's
textual and institutional traditions, the book explores the uses
made of sanctity and patronage by the Franks. These so-called
'fathers' protected monasteries against interference by
ecclesiastical and secular authorities. Moreover, as inhabitants of
God's court of heaven, these 'fathers' served monks and laypeople
as intercessors with God in matters of sin and disease. Thus they
provided, in the Orleanais and elsewhere, an important source of
power and authority, as well as an aspect of Christian belief which
was shared by clergy and laity.
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