hagiography

My favorite hagiographer, and a best seller during the middle ages, is Jacobus de Voragine of Genoa. He wrote the Golden Legend: full of saints and all things saintly. Bill Caxton edited an early English edition in the late 15 century. Should be available online. Yup:

http://www.ccel.org/ccel/voragine/goldleg1.all.html