Source selection
Definitions and historical framing were checked against encyclopedic and institutional sources.
Methodology
Research, editorial choices, and image use made transparent.
This version of the website was built from online research into Christian hagiography, saint veneration, medieval art, and critical hagiographic methodology.
Methodology
How this website was assembled.
The site was not designed as an encyclopedic database, but as an editorial and visual introduction to the field. The texts are rewritten syntheses based on reliable reference and museum sources.
Visual direction
The design translates manuscript, relic, and liturgical ordering into a modern site experience.
Future extension
When transcript material is added, the content can be deepened without restructuring the project.
Sources used
Content foundation for the current version of the project.
The links below form the main intellectual anchors for the current site version.
Britannica: hagiography
Used for genre definition, historical framing, and foundational orientation.
Open sourceSociété des Bollandistes
Used for the modern critical approach to saints' lives and cult history.
Open sourceLife of St. Antony
Used for the role of Athanasius in the spread of the ascetic ideal.
Open sourceGregory the Great: writings and influence
Used for the role of the `Dialogues` in early medieval saintly literature.
Open sourceSaints in Medieval Christian Art
Used for attributes, relics, intercession, and exemplary figures in medieval art.
Open sourceRomanesque Art
Used for the link between relics, pilgrimage, church building, and the cult of saints.
Open sourceThe Book of Hours: A Medieval Bestseller
Used for personal devotion, suffrages, and the function of illuminated manuscripts.
Open sourceSaints and Other Sacred Byzantine Figures
Used for visual logic, choirs of saints, and the role of icons in Byzantine devotion.
Open source
Image credits
Images used and licenses.
The downloaded images in this project are stored locally and come from open-access files from The Metropolitan Museum of Art via Wikimedia Commons.
All Saints in an Initial V
Used on the homepage and in the historical and visual-culture sections.
Wikimedia Commons
Four Saints in an Initial O
Used on the figures page as a visual summary of typology and recognition.
Wikimedia Commons
Reliquary Bust of a Female Saint
Used on the page about relics and devotional presence.
Wikimedia Commons
Original SVG illustrations for this site were stored in the project's self-made image archive
and integrated locally into the website assets.