Associate Dean and John Sutton Miner Professor of History, Pomona College

St. Elizabeth of Thuringia provides us with a penetrating insight into the anguish and joy of medieval people. Kenneth Baxter Wolf's commentary and lucid translation of the canonization records of St. Elizabeth are priceless relics, providing an invaluable catalogue of social information about the penitents, their age, gender, occupation, descriptions of their illness, their cure, and their responses to the cure. This volume advances the study of hagiography and the popular imagination and deepens our understanding of the construction of medieval sainthood.

• Preliminaries: ; On the Translations ; Acknowledgments ; Critical Editions of Translated Texts ; Introduction ; Essays: ; The Afterlife of St. Elizabeth ; The Life of St. Elizabeth ; Sources: ; The Miracle List (August 1232) ; Conrad of Marburg, Summa vitae (1232) ; Miracle Depositions from the First Papal Commission (1233) ; Miracle Depositions from the Second Papal Commission (1235) ; Dicta quatuor ancillarum (1235) ; Select Bibliography ; Index

Associate Dean and John Sutton Miner Professor of History, Pomona College

St. Elizabeth of Thuringia provides us with a penetrating insight into the anguish and joy of medieval people. Kenneth Baxter Wolf's commentary and lucid translation of the canonization records of St. Elizabeth are priceless relics, providing an invaluable catalogue of social information about the penitents, their age, gender, occupation, descriptions of their illness, their cure, and their responses to the cure. This volume advances the study of hagiography and the popular imagination and deepens our understanding of the construction of medieval sainthood.

• Preliminaries: ; On the Translations ; Acknowledgments ; Critical Editions of Translated Texts ; Introduction ; Essays: ; The Afterlife of St. Elizabeth ; The Life of St. Elizabeth ; Sources: ; The Miracle List (August 1232) ; Conrad of Marburg, Summa vitae (1232) ; Miracle Depositions from the First Papal Commission (1233) ; Miracle Depositions from the Second Papal Commission (1235) ; Dicta quatuor ancillarum (1235) ; Select Bibliography ; Index

Associate Dean and John Sutton Miner Professor of History, Pomona College

St. Elizabeth of Thuringia provides us with a penetrating insight into the anguish and joy of medieval people. Kenneth Baxter Wolf's commentary and lucid translation of the canonization records of St. Elizabeth are priceless relics, providing an invaluable catalogue of social information about the penitents, their age, gender, occupation, descriptions of their illness, their cure, and their responses to the cure. This volume advances the study of hagiography and the popular imagination and deepens our understanding of the construction of medieval sainthood.

• Preliminaries: ; On the Translations ; Acknowledgments ; Critical Editions of Translated Texts ; Introduction ; Essays: ; The Afterlife of St. Elizabeth ; The Life of St. Elizabeth ; Sources: ; The Miracle List (August 1232) ; Conrad of Marburg, Summa vitae (1232) ; Miracle Depositions from the First Papal Commission (1233) ; Miracle Depositions from the Second Papal Commission (1235) ; Dicta quatuor ancillarum (1235) ; Select Bibliography ; Index