The relationship between santity and sacrality, which had a traditional role in hagiographic study, has in recent decades been enriched on a number of counts: …

In the two centuries after the Council of Trent, liturgical calendars (which are in a constant state of change) offer a dialectal relationship between the …

Multidisciplinary contributions on the cult of saints and hagiography related to the city of L’Aquila and to the Abruzzo from Late Antiquity to the present …

A particular resource available to the Church during the early modern period through its re-establishment of the cult of saints following on from the Council …

The change in the representation of the forms and manifestations of sanctity by mass media which take hold during the twentieth century when the propaganda …

Three motivations underlie this juxtaposition of apocryphal and hagiographic literature: a common object of study, in the main; the numerous analogies between the two topics, …

An initial reflection – from diverse points of view – on the recollection and praise of Karol Wojtyla as an implicit recognition of his holiness, …

Relics have, now for a number of years, been the subject of a reconsideration which has made clear their many material and symbolic dimensions. The …

Hagiographic texts from Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages often have a fluid and complex transmission which makes the reconstruction of their individual histories and …