Marianne Sághy

Marianne Sághy (1961–2018) was a Hungarian expert on the religious and social culture of Late Antiquity, with an especial focus on the cult of saints and hagiography. She was associate professor at the Department of Medieval Studies, Central European University, and at the Department of Medieval and Early Modern Universal History, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest.

Biography Early life and education Sághy was born in 1961. She attended the Szilágyi Erzsébet Secondary School, Budapest. She graduated from Eötvös Loránd University in 1985 with a degree in History and French. She received a French government scholarship (1984–1985) to study at the Centre d'Études Supérieures de Civilisation Médiévale, Université de Poitiers. Her Master's thesis was entitled Pierre Dubois' Plan for the Recovery of the Holy Land in 1306.

Career In 1993, she was a founding member of the Department of Medieval Studies at Central European University, where she was employed as a lecturer. Her last book, Saint Martin, Soldier of Christ, was published only a few weeks before her death. The Hungarian Institute of Paris honores her in November 2019 with a presentation of a book published a few weeks after her death: an edition, French translation and presentation of the works of Pierre Dubois, De la reconquête de la Terre Sainte – De l'abrègement des guerres et procès du royaume des Francs, intro, éd. et trad. M. SAGHY, A. LEONAS et P.-A. FORCADET, Les Belles Lettres, Paris, 2019.

Publications Monographs and edited volumes (ed.) Women and Power in East Central Europe: Medieval and Modern (Idyllywild: Charles Schlacks, 1993) Women and Power in East Central Europe: Medieval and Modern (Los Angeles: Ch. Schlacks, Centre for Multietnic and Transnational Studies, University of Southern California, 1996) Versek és vértanúk: a római mártírkultusz Damasus pápa korában, 366-384 [Poems and martyrs: The Roman cult of martyrs at the time of Pope Damasus] (Budapest: Hungarus Paulus, 2003) Isten barátai: Szent és szentéletrajz a késő antikvitásban [Friends of God: Saints and hagiography in the Late Antiquity] (Budapest : Kairosz, 2005) Fifteen Years of Medieval Studies in Central Europe (Budapest: Central European University, 2009) (ed. with Michele Renee Salzman and Rita Lizzi Testa) Pagans and Christians in Late Antique Rome: Conflict, Competition, and Coexistence in the Fourth Century (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016) (ed. with Edward M. Schoolman) Pagans and Christians in the Late Roman Empire: New Evidence, New Approaches (4th-8th centuries) (Budapest: Central European University, 2018) Szent Márton, Krisztus katonája [Saint Martin, soldier of Christ] (Szombathely: Szülőföld Kiadó, 2018) Pierre Dubois, De la reconquête de la Terre Sainte – De l'abrègement des guerres et procès du royaume des Francs, intro, éd. et trad. M. SAGHY, A. LEONAS et P.-A. FORCADET, Les Belles Lettres, Paris, 2019.

Translations Translated from English to Hungarian:

Peter Brown, The Cult of the Saints; Augustine of Hippo: A Biography Robert Markus, Saint Gregory the Great and his Age Pierre Riché, Éducation et culture dans l’Occident barbare

Translated from Latin to French

Pierre Dubois, De la reconquête de la Terre Sainte – De l'abrègement des guerres et procès du royaume des Francs, intro, éd. et trad. M. SAGHY, A. LEONAS et P.-A. FORCADET, Les Belles Lettres, Paris, 2019.

Articles and book chapters

'Aspects of Female Rulership in Late Medieval Literature: the Queens' Reign in Angevin Hungary', East Central Europe, vol. 20, issue 1 (1993) 69–86 'Scinditur in partes populus: Pope Damasus and the Martyrs of Rome', Early Medieval Europe, vol. 9 no. 3 (2000) 273–87 'Pope Damasus and the Beginnings of Roman Hagiography', Promoting the Saints: Cults and their Contexts from Late Antiquity until the Early Modern Period: Essays in Honor of Gábor Klaniczay for His 60th Birthday, edited by Ottó Gecser, Jozsef Laszlovsky, Marcell Sebok, Katalin Szende, and Balazs Nagy (Budapest : Central European University Press, 2011) 1–17 'Veste Regia Indutus: Representations of the Emperor in the Vita Martini', IKON, vol. 5 (2012) 47–55 'Hungarians in Hell. The Visions of Laurentius de Tar', IKON (2013) 29–37 'Strangers to Patrons: Bishop Damasus and the Foreign Martyrs of Rome', The Hungarian Historical Review, vol. 5 no. 3 (2016) 465-86