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This handsomely illustrated book suggests new ways of understanding a cultural institution central to the spiritual and artistic imagination of the Middle Ages. Bringing together fourteen essays by contributors representing a number of disciplines, it illuminates such key issues as the place of sanctity in society, the role of gender in the representation of sainthood, and the use of hagiographic conventions in other genres.
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This timely book reflects and advances recent scholarship on medieval sainthood in its diverse contexts and functions, bringing together fourteen previously unpublished essays by a group of contributors representing a number of scholarly disciplines.
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