“I suppose someone could trawl through the 383 volumes of Migne's Patrologiae Cursus Completus and extract some book-length hagiographies that qualify as novels — there had to be a few protonovelists who adopted hagiography as the only game in town, as painters of religious subjects learned to do — but that someone isn't me.” NovelHagiographyMigne Book:The Novel: An Alternative History: Beginnings to 1600 Source: The Novel: An Alternative History: Beginnings to 1600