Abstract
In A paradise of priests, Catherine Saucier weaves a compelling narrative centred on the lives of Liège’s founder-bishops as celebrated in the hagiography, art, rituals and music made, enacted and re-enacted by the medieval clerical population of Liège. Through an expert examination of an impressively vast array of sources—including archival, liturgical, artistic and hagiographic—Saucier analyses the changing image of the city and its founder-bishops through nine centuries of documentary record. The story centres on the celebration of the lives and deaths of three bishops—Theodard (d. c.668), Lambert (d. c.700) and Hubert (d.727)—who were credited with the foundation, promotion and protection of Liège. Liège, a large and wealthy city, and capital of the prince-bishopric from 985, had large numbers of secular clergy, encompassing a cathedral and seven collegiate church chapters with approximately 270 resident canons by the mid-11th century (p.147). It was, as Petrarch observed, a ‘place noted for its clergy’ (p.4).
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