'Caculatores ac susurratores' : rumeurs, ragots et ouï-dire dans l’hagiographie des abbayes Saint-Pierre et Saint-Bavon à Gand, Xe-XIe siècles Ghent University
In the tenth and eleventh centuries, the monastic communities of Saint Peter and Saint Bavo in Ghent were involved in a harsh struggle for local prestige. During this conflict, they produced a particularly important series of hagiographic narratives. These texts functioned as literary and stylized “arguments” in a context of ongoing mutual envy and debate. They also allow to perceive how in this conflict a whole range of other utterances were ...