Introduction: saints, teachers, princes, and students 1. Forging sanctity: Hilduin of Saint-Denis and the epic Passio Dionysii 2. Glossing the imaginary: epic vitae in the classroom 3. Classical nightmares: Christian poets and the pagan past 4. Bishops, monks, and mother bees: an epic vita at the millennium 5. Mothers and daughters, affiliation and conflict in the lives of Rictrude and Euseba Conclusions: 'black seeds on a white field' Appendix 1. St Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, cod. sang. 265 Appendix 2. Douai Bibliotheque municipale ms 849.
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