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Aitor Boada-Benito, Ph.D. (2024), Complutense University (Madrid), is member of the Institute for Religious Studies at that institution. He specializes in the study of sainthood in Late Antiquity and serves as Section Editor for the journal Open Theology (De Gruyter).

• AbbreviationsIIList of Tables and FiguresXNotes on Contributors XIntroductionAitor Boada-Benito1 Taxonomy, Titles, and the Critically Self-Aware Study of “Hagiography”Massimo Rondolino2 What Most Noble Servants Do: Feminine Performativity in Medieval Funerary InscriptionsSonia Madrid Medrano3 Ritual Negotiations and Failure: Hagiography and the Articulation of Religious DissentAitor Boada-Benito4 The Sensoriality and Sensuality of the Martyred Princes Boris and Gleb in Their Earliest East Church Slavonic HagiographiesEnrique Santos Marinas5 Rewriting Saints’ Lives in Verse: Genre, Function and Compositional Strategies in Tetrastichs on St Theodore Stratilates of Theodore ProdromosMatilde Casas Olea6 Rewriting, Creation and Re-signification of the Marian Miracle at the End of the Middle AgesPatricia Cañizares Ferriz7 Sensoriality and Performativity: the Spiritual Experience of Nature in Juana de la Cruz (1481–1534)María Victoria Curto Hernández8 A Life in Memory: María de San José’s Libro de las Recreaciones, the First Biography of Teresa of ÁvilaEsther Borrego Gutiérrez9 Saint Anne the Teacher: Women’s Literacy, Sainthood and Biblical Memory in Post-Tridentine SpainJulia Lewandowska10 Female Mystic Spirituality and Sensorial Devotions in Italy in the XVIII CenturyChiara Coletti11 Incarnating Sanctity: Forms of Female Spirituality in Contemporary Religious FictionAna Rita Gonçalves SoaresIndex