Set Me As a Seal Upon Thy Heart

Andrea-Bianka Znorovszky received a Joint Excellence in Science and Humanities Research Fellowship from the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, in collaboration with Universität Salzburg, Institut für Realienkunde des Mittelalters und der Frühen Neuzeit. Starting with September 2018, she functions as a researcher at the Universita Ca'Foscari, Venice, Italy, as a recipient of the Marie Sk?odowska-Curie Actions-Individual Fellowship (IF), financed by the European Commission, Horizon 2020 Framework Programme for Research and Innovation 2014- 2020. She received her PhD magna cum laude in Medieval Studies from the Central European University in Budapest in 2016. Her doctoral dissertation, Between Mary and Christ: Depicting Cross-Dressed Saints in the Middle Ages (c. 1200-1600), explored the iconographic development of cross-dressed saints in relation to their cult in Western Europe. She also holds a Masters Degree in Medieval Studies from the Central European University, Budapest. In 2016-2017 she functioned as an Assistant Professor at the American University of Central Asia, Bishkek, Kyrgyz Republic, where she taught academic writing (First Year Seminar) and art courses (Women in Art and Literature).

• Foreword By Gerhard JaritzIntroduction By Andrea-Bianka ZnorovszkyCHAPTER 1. Bricks to Bones: Royal Women and the Construction of Holy Place in the Stepennaia Kniga, by Rosie FinlinsonCHAPTER 2. Macrina and Melania the Elder: Painting the Portraits of Holy Learned Women in the Fourth-Century Roman Empire, by Andra Jug?naruCHAPTER 3. The Apocryphal Geography of the Virgin Mary in Hagiographic Collections: Dissemination and Liturgy, by Andrea-Bianka ZnorovszkyCHAPTER 4. Private Devotion and Political Ostentation: Roger I the Great Count and the Spread of Saint Lucy's Cult in Southern Italy, by Francesco CalòCHAPTER 5. Beyond a Hagiographic Cliché. On the Supernatural Sustenance of Saint Catherine of Siena, by C?t?lina-Tatiana CovaciuCHAPTER 6. Between Similarity and Distinction: Notes on the Iconography of Saint Wilgefortis in the Medieval and Early Modern Period, by Silvia Marin Barutcieff