Une autre histoire. Histoire, temps et passé dans les <i>Vies</i> et <i>Passions</i> latines (IVe–XIe siècle). By Marie‐CélineIsaïa. Paris: Institut de recherche et d’histoire des textes. 2023. 490 pp. €33.50 (print). ISBN 978‐2‐493209‐04‐7 (print); ISBN 978‐2‐493209‐06‐1 (open access ebook).

Totalling almost 500 pages of tightly packed typeface, Une autre histoire is a monumental work filled with insights.The study analyses approximately eight hundred Latin vitae and passiones composed in western Europe (excluding Iberia) between the fourth and the eleventh century (although typographical errors on the front and back covers of the printed book set the endpoint in the ninth century), accessed in printed editions published between the late sixteenth and the early twenty-first century.Isaa occasionally cites individual manuscripts but never addresses variations in texts across manuscripts or printed editions.She draws primarily on the methodological and/or theoretical statements of the late antique and early medieval 'hagiographers' in question, and secondarily on the emplotments and 'factual' details of their narratives, to explore how those authors created and transmitted 'un modle de rcit historique qui reste inaperu dans les classifications thoriques du savoir' (p.418).Isaa illustrates the details of the model through very many extremely long textual extracts, all in her own (French) translations; she does not include the Latin originals.For Isaa, the type of (previously unnoticed) historical narrative produced by late ancient and early medieval 'hagiographers' constituted 'une histoire alternative, une histoire convaincante et credible [L]es hagiographes fabriquent un pass cohrent, mme s'ils en amnagent la chronologie, en inventent les pisodes et les acteurs et mlent si indistinctement leurs convictions avec les faits' (p.417).She also argues that those 'hagiographers' were conscious of themselves as practitioners of an autonomous discourse of hagiography, distinct fromyet simultaneously intertwined withhistoriography in the complicated and ever-shifting ways laid out in her chapter summaries (pp.23-4).Chapter 1 traces how fifth-, sixth-, and seventh-century vitae and passiones became progressively distinguished from the genre of ecclesiastical history.Chapter 2 discusses how some eighth-and ninthcentury authors (who generally classed themselves as participants in the

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