THE TABULARIUM HAGIOGRAPHICUM SERIES

(ISSN 1379-5279)

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Ever since the very beginning, the Société des Bollandistes formed a centre of research whose members maintained relations with scholars, whatever their origin, who worked in various disciplines (theology, philosophy, history, archaeology, etc.).

The aim of this new collection, devoted to historiographic research, a field which is considered today to be particularly important, is to exploit the archives not only of the Bollandists and some of their correspondents but also of scholars who in modern and contemporary times have been interested in hagiography.

The publication of these documents constitutes a contribution of major importance to the history of critical scholarship as well as to that of the Church and the society in which these people worked.

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Tabularium hagiographicum, vol. 8

Ph. GUIGON, Querelles autour de l’hagiographie bretonne à la fin du XIXe siècle. Dom François Plaine et les Bollandistes.  Correspondance.  Présentation, édition et commentaire.
Bruxelles, 2015 [ISBN 978-2-87365-030-8].

Dom François Plaine (1833-1900), a specialist in the hagiography of Brittany, corresponded with the Bollandists Victor De Buck, his brother Remi, Charles De Smedt and Albert Poncelet between 1871 and 1893. After a stay in Brussels he played a part in the beginnings of the Analecta Bollandiana (1882-1889). An end was put to the collaboration by De Smedt because of irreconciliable methodological and conceptual divergences. Plaine, who had been schooled in traditional apologetics at Solesmes, could not understand the critical spirit promoted in the Bulletin des publications hagiographiques under Poncelet’s influence from 1891. The virulence of their exchanges in some ways foreshadows the modernist crisis, which brought about the surveillance of the Bulletin by Rome up until 1920.

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