"We are only holy to others": Constructing and Contesting Sainthood in the Canonisation Process ofJeanne-Marie de Maillé

我的研究将探索规范的权力结构和公共判断在产生和控制中世纪身份方面的作用。它将通过在社区认同和官方授权的正式框架的交叉点上检查中世纪圣人的身份来做到这一点。我将探讨圣洁话语的存在--对圣徒身份习俗的共同理解--以及它在叙事表述中的表达如何在封圣审判中构建特定的身份(圣人或非圣人)。我将考虑在多大程度上是司法-法律形式(作为一种从广泛背景中捕捉到的意义的具体化和形式化的系统)赋予这些表演其社会重要性，以及宣誓人使用修辞手段是否可以表明人口中的广泛部分可以为了自己的目的而使用权力技术(法律程序、编纂、授权)，例如颁布对神圣性的特定解释。

My research will explore the role of normative power structures and communal judgements in producing and controlling medieval identities. It will do so by examining the identity of a medieval saint at the intersection of community identification and the formal framework of official authorisation. I will explore the existence of a 'discourse of sanctity' - a shared understanding of the conventions of sainthood - and how its expression in narrative formulations could construct specific identities (saintly or otherwise)within a canonisation trial. I will consider how far it is the juridico-legal format (as a system of reifying and formalising meaning captured from diffuse contexts) that gives these performances their social importance, and whether the use of rhetorical devices by deponents can show how broad sections of the population could employ technologies of power (legal processes, codification, authorisation) for their own purposes, such as promulgating a particular interpretation of sanctity.