Gecser O. et al. (ed.) Promoting the Saints

Central European University Press, 2011. — 338 p. — (CEU Medievalia 12).The studies in this volume concentrate on a complex set of socio-cultural phenomena, the cult of saints, in a variety of regions from Egypt to Poland, with a focus on Italy and Central Europe. The subjects of the contributions range in time from the fourth until the eighteenth century. The diversity of approaches adopted by the contributors — from literary analysis and historical anthropology to archaeology and art history — represents that open and multidisciplinary historical research that characterizes the work of Gábor Klaniczay to whom these essays are dedicated.