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"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. A crusader, a hermit, a bishop, a plague victim, and even a repentant murderer by turns: the stories attached to Saint Gerald of Aurillac offer a strange and fragmented legacy. His two earliest biographies, written in the early tenth and early eleventh centuries, depicted the saint as a warrior who devoted his life to pious service. Soon Gerald was a venerated figure, and the monastery he founded was itself a popular pilgrimage site. Like many other cults, his faded into obscurity over time, although a small group of loyal worshippers periodically revived interest, creating sculpted or stained glass images and the alternate biographies that complicated an ever more obscure history. The Making and Unmaking of a Saint traces the rise and fall of devotion to Gerald of Aurillac through a millennium, from his death in the tenth century to the attempt to reinvigorate his cult in the nineteenth century. Mathew Kuefler makes a strong case for the sophistication of hagiography as a literary genre that can be used to articulate religious doubts and anxieties even as it exalts the saints; and he overturns the received attribution of Gerald's detailed Vita to Odo of Cluny, identifying it instead as the work of the infamous eleventh-century forger Ademar of Chabannes. Through his careful examination, the biographies and iconographies that mark the waxing and waning of Saint Gerald's cult tell an illuminating tale not only of how saints are remembered but also of how they are forgotten.

Christian hagiography --- Christian saints --- Hagiographie chrétienne --- Saints chrétiens --- History --- Biography --- Early works to 1800 --- Histoire --- Biographies --- Ouvrages avant 1800 --- Gerald, --- Odo, --- Cult --- History. --- Hagiographie chrétienne --- Saints chrétiens --- Saints --- Canonization --- Geraldus, --- Géraud, --- Christian hagiography - History - To 1500 --- Christian saints - France - Aurillac - Biography - Early works to 1800 --- Geraldus comes Auriliacensis --- Gerald, - of Aurillac, Saint, - 855-909 - Cult - History --- Odo, - Saint, Abbot of Cluny, - approximately 879-942. - Vita sancti Geraldi Auriliacensis --- Gerald, - of Aurillac, Saint, - 855-909

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Homosexuality --- Homosexuality --- History --- Religious aspects --- Christianity --- History. --- Boswell, John,

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Sex --- History

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Volume II focuses on systems of thought and belief in the history of world sexualities, ranging from early humans to contemporary approaches. Comprising eighteen chapters, this volume opens with a chapter on the evolutionary legacy and then delves into the sexualities of ancient Egypt, the Near East, Greece, and Rome, continuing with pre-modern South Asia, China, and Japan, Africa, the Americas, and Oceania. Chapters include an examination of sexuality in the religious traditions of Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, and also look at more recent approaches, including scientific sex, sexuality in socialism and Marxism, and the intersections between sexuality, feminism, and post-colonialism.

Sex --- Sex customs --- History. --- History.

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Geraldus comes Auriliacensis --- Geraldus Aurillacensis, - 855 (ca.)-909