List of Contributors

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Nikolas O. Hoel and Lydia M. Walker

I) Relics, Devotion, and Local Crises

1. Narratives about Crises in Texts about Relics (Inventiones reliquiarum) in Overcoming Crises Affecting Monasteries and their Local Populations

Monika Gerundt

2. In Time(s) of Crisis: The Spreading of the Devotion towards San Francesco di Paola as a Response to Emergencies

Guilia Zanon

II) Violence: Trauma, Memory, and Prophecy

3. Foundations of Trauma: Plague, Relics, and the Creation of the Igreja de São Roque

Emily Heimerman

4. Partners in Crisis: An Analysis of Thomas of Cantimprè's Portrayals of Holy Women and Martial Crisis

Lydia M. Walker

5. A Disappointed Saint?: Perspectives on the Lack of Martyrdom in the Life of Anskar

Nikolas O. Hoel

III) Cultural Identity and Ecclesiastical Crises

6. Narrating a Crisis and Constructing an Ideal of Saintliness: in Times of Reform: Anselm's Withdrawal to St Giles in Rangerius of Vita Anselmi

Sarah Schnödewind

7. Crisis Management and English Hagiography: Forgetting and Remembering Medieval Sanctity in an Age of Counter-Reform

Gina M. Di Salvo

8. Flowers, Fauna and Garlanded Priests: The Festa dell'Inghirlandata in Medieval Naples

Clare Whitton

Index

Saints, Sanctity, and Crisis in Medieval and Early Modern Hagiography