Promoting the Saints

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, BudapestBalázs 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 Petra 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