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

我的研究将探讨规范的权力结构和公共判断在生产和控制中世纪的身份的作用。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。我将探讨一个“神圣的话语”的存在-一个共同的理解的圣人的惯例-以及如何在叙事公式的表达可以构建特定的身份（圣洁或其他）在封圣审判。我会考虑司法-法律形式（作为一个从分散的语境中捕捉到的意义的具体化和形式化的系统），使这些表演具有社会重要性，以及宣誓人使用修辞手段是否可以表明人口的广泛部分可以使用权力技术（法律的程序、编纂、授权）为自己的目的，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.