Cornell University Press, 1991

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.

Contributors: Kevin Brownlee, John Coakley, Magdalena Carrasco, Brigitte Cazelles, David Damrosch, Cynthia Hahn, Klaus Jankofsky, Richard Kieckhefer, Lester K. Little, Jo Ann McNamara, Elizabeth Robertson, Gail Berkeley Sherman, Karl D. Uitti, Andri Vauchez, Evelyn Birge Vitz.