Introduction. Spreading the word about saints in manuscript and print / Alison K. Frazier -- Preface. Printing a new saint : woodcut production and the canonization of saints in late medieval Italy / Roberto Cobianchi -- Seeing is believing : St. Lucy in text, image, and festive culture / Barbara Wisch -- Archival documents, early printed books, and manuscripts : the backwards text-tradition of St. Roch "of Montpellier" / Pierre Bolle -- Tales from Trent : the construction of "Saint" Simon in manuscript and print / Stephen Bowd -- Early printed martyrologies in Italy (1486 c. 1584) / Giuseppe Antonio Guazzelli -- Honoratus of Lérins : a saint and a holy island between manuscript and print / Cécile Caby -- The unstable image of Vincent Ferrer in manuscript and print vitae, 1455 1555 / Laura Ackerman Smoller -- 'Everyone worships Fra Girolamo as a saint' : Savonarola's presumed sanctity in sixteenth-century manuscripts and prints / Stefano Dall'Aglio -- Caterina Vigri between gender and image : La Santa in text and iconography / Serena Spanò Martinelli and Irene Graziani -- Fixing texts and changing regimes : two holy lives in French-occupied Milan, ca. 1500 1525 / John Gagné -- Blessed Lucia of Narni (1476 1544) between "hagiography" and "autobiography" : mystical authorship and the persistence of the manuscript / Gabriella Zarri -- Sanctity as cheap print : production, markets, and consumers in early modern Milan / Kevin Stevens.
Summary:
The essays in this volume examine the impact of printing on the expression, representation, and reproduction of sanctity on the Italian peninsula between 1400 and 1600 and how the imperatives of cult were expressed in various media, both old and new. In so doing, they advance a fuller and more nuanced understanding of both cult and media, and mark the nexus of cult and media as a site of cultural production and innovation. They are thus initial steps in a new area and an invitation to further study of saints of all sorts--canonized, popularly recognized, or self-proclaimed--in the fluid media environment of early modernity. Provided by publisher.
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