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Advance Praise:

“This expertly curated volume presents twelve sharp and sophisticated essays situated at the intersection of two fertile fields: the cultural history of sanctity and the history of the transformations wrought by the introduction of printing.”
— Daniel Bornstein, Washington University in St. Louis

“The volume is alive and current in its scholarship and its rich bibliography a barometer of the state of research in the field.”
— Nerida Newbigin, University of Sydney

Contents:

Alison K. Frazier, “Introduction: Spreading the Word about Saints in Manuscript and Print”

PRELUDE
1) Roberto Cobianchi, “Printing a New Saint: Woodcut Production and the Canonization of Saints in Late Medieval Italy”

Part I: Lay Sanctity Between Manuscript and Print
2) Barbara Wisch, “Seeing is Believing: St. Lucy in Text, Image, and Festive Culture”
3) Pierre Bolle, “Archival Documents, Early Printed Books, and Manuscripts: The Backwards Text-Tradition of St. Roch “of Montpellier'”
4) Stephen Bowd, “Tales from Trent: The Construction of ‘Saint’ Simon in Manuscript and Print”

INTERMEZZO
5) Giuseppe Antonio Guazzelli, “Early Printed Martyrologies in Italy (1486-c. 1584)”

Part II: Saints of the Religious Orders Between Manuscript and Print
6) Cécile Caby, “Honoratus of Lérins: A Saint and a Holy Island Between Manuscript and Print”
7) Laura Ackerman Smoller, “The Unstable Image of Vincent Ferrer in Manuscript and Print vitae, 1455–1555”
8) Stefano Dall’Aglio, “‘Everyone Worships Fra Girolamo as a Saint’: Savonarola’s Presumed Sanctity in Sixteenth-Century Manuscripts and Prints”
9) Serena Spanò Martinelli and Irene Graziani, “Caterina Vigri between Gender and Image: La Santa in Text and Iconography”
10) John Gagné, “Fixing Texts and Changing Regimes: Two Holy Lives in French-Occupied Milan, ca. 1500–1525”
11) Gabriella Zarri, “Blessed Lucia of Narni (1476–1544) Between ‘Hagiography’ and ‘Autobiography’: Mystical Authorship and the Persistence of the Manuscript”

CODA
12) Kevin Stevens, “Sanctity as Cheap Print: Production, Markets, and Consumers in Early Modern Milan”

The Editor:

Alison Frazier is Associate Professor of History at the University of Texas in Austin. Her monograph Possible Lives: Authors and Saints in Renaissance Italy (2005) won the 2006 Gordon Prize from the Renaissance Society of America. Her current research addresses humanist contributions to the pre-Tridentine liturgy.

Reviews:

Ecclesiastical History, 68, (2017). pp 155-157. Reviewed by Marco Faini.

H-Net Reviews, (Spring 2016). pp 494. Reviewed by Matt Vester.

The Catholic Historical Review, 102:3, (Summer 2016). pp 603-604. Reviewed by Cristina Dondi.

Renaissance and Reformation/Renaissance et Réforme, 39.2 (Summer 2016). pp 181-184. Reviewed by Mary Morse.

Literaturbericht / Archive for Reformation History, 45 (2016). pp 136-137.

Journal of Ecclesiastical History, 68.1 (2018). pp 155-157. Reviewed by Marco Faini.