Ottó Gecser is assistant professor at the Department of Sociology, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, and OTKA post-doctoral research fellow at the Department of Medieval Studies, CEU. He is interested in cultural and religious history and in historical sociology.József Laszlovszky is Professor at the Department of Medieval Studies, Director of the Cultural Heritage Studies Program of the Central European university. He is guest lecturer at the Department of Medieval and Postmedieval Archaeology, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest.Balázs Nagy is Associate Professor at the Department of Medieval Studies of CEU, and at the Department of Medieval and Early Modern European History of Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest. A founding member of the Medieval Central Europe Research Network (MECERN).Marcell Sebok is Assistant Professor at the Department of Medieval Studies of Central European University.

• Preface by Jacques Le Goff, List of Abbreviations Marianne, SÁGHY: Pope Damasus and the Beginnings of Roman Hagiography Ildikó, CSEPREGI: Theological Self-Definition in Byzantine Miraculous Healing Cristian-Nicolae, GASPAR: (Re)claiming Adalbert: Patristic Quotations and Their Function in Canaparius’ Vita S. Adalberti Patrick, GEARY: “Pull you Sons of Whores! ”Linguistic Register and Reform in the Legend of St. Clement János, BAK: Hagiography and Chronicles André, VAUCHEZ: Hagiography and Biography: The Case of St. Francis of Assisi Péter, BOKODY: Idolatry or Power: St. Francis in Front of the Sultan Stanko, ANDRIC: Blessed John of France, the First Franciscan Minister Provincial in Hungary, and his Miracles József, LASZLOVSZKY: Material Culture and Everyday Life in the Acts of Canonization and Legends of St.Margaret Viktória, DEÁK: The Techniques of a Hagiographer: The Two Legendae of Saint Margaret of Hungary Dávid, FALVAY: St. Elizabeth of Hungary in Italian Vernacular Literature (Thirteenth to Fifteenth Centuries) Stanislava, KUZMOVÁ: Division and Reintegration of St. Stanislaus: A Political Analogy in Sermons?, Balázs NAGY: Saints, Names, and Identities: The Case of Charles IV of Luxemburg Erno, MAROSI: Saints at Home and Abroad: Some Observations on the Creation of Iconographic Types in Hungary of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries Béla Zsolt, SZAKÁCS: Palatine Lackfi and his Saints: Frescos in the Franciscan Church of Keszthely Gerhard, JARITZ: Late Medieval Saints and the Visual Representation of Rural Space György, GALAMB: Sainthood in the Propaganda of Mendicant Orders: The Case of the Dialogus contra fraticellos of James of the Marches Ottó, GECSER: Sermons on St. Sebastian after the Black Death Emoke, NAGY: “Had She Born Ten Daughters, She would have Named them All Mary Because of the Kindness of the First Mary.” St. Anne in the Sermons of Two Late Medieval Hungarian Preachers Petr,a MUTLOVA: The Cult of the Saints in the Bohemian Reformation: The Question of Images Marina, MILADINOV: Madonna of Loreto as a Target of Reformation Critique: Peter Paul Vergerius the Younger Benedek, LÁNG: Saint Christopher, the Patron of Treasure-Hunters, List of Contributors, Index