Hagiography and the Cult of Saints

The writing and the critical study of saints' lives and cults: from medieval legendaries (Jacobus de Voragine's Golden Legend) to the Bollandist critique of legend-growth (Delehaye), the saint as Roman-style patron (Peter Brown) and the relic economy (Geary). For Renaissance 3.0: the historical record of carearchy, saints as personae fictae of caregories sold in the soul market.

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