This project offers a re-interpretation of hagiography as an instrument for translocal community-building and networking in the Long Tenth Century (c. 880–1030). In the traditional view, the genre's dominance in this period evidenced a drastic decline in the reach and scope of institutional, social, and cultural networks. But this perception is hard to reconcile with emerging evidence that (a) hagiographical production was deeply entangled at an intertextual level, (b) the texts contain numerous references to connections between religious communities, and (c) authors went to great lengths to ground these connections in a legitimizing past. While these things strongly suggest that hagiographies were designed to foster imagined communities of religious groups and help establish resilient networks for the exchange of human and cultural capital, this hypothesis has yet to be systematically verified. Through an innovative methodology that combines state-of-the art approaches to Historical Network Analysis with traditional ones for textual study, the researchers will conduct the first integrated and large-scale investigation of all three indicators of hagiography’s entangled nature. By doing so, this project will debunk former views of this era as one in which the local was the dominant paradigm of social and cultural production. Furthermore, it will significantly move the methodological goalposts of research into translocal community building, networking, and written culture.