Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-211) and index.
Contents:
"By the authority of Blessed Peter": Making saint-making -- "They trust not in the suffrages of the saints": Saintly skirmishes -- "That the perversity of heretics might be confounded": from practice to theory -- "Hark, hark, the dogs do bark...": the assault on mendicant holiness (1234-60) -- "That God might not permit us to err": the articulation of infallibility in canonization -- Sancti per fidem vicerunt regna: "the saints, by faith, conquered kingdoms".
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