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WOLF, K. B., The Life and Afterlife of St. Elizabeth of Hungary. Testimony from her Canonization Hearings. Oxford University Press, 2011. 248p. Hardback. St. Elizabeth of Thuringia provides us with a penetrating insight into the anguish and joy of medieval people. Kenneth Baxter Wolf's commentary and lucid translation of the canonization records of St. Elizabeth are priceless relics, providing an invaluable catalogue of social information about the penitents, their age, gender, occupation, descriptions of their illness, their cure, and their responses to the cure. This volume advances the study of hagiography and the popular imagination and deepens our understanding of the construction of medieval sainthood. Thomas J. Heffernan, Kenneth Curry Professor of Humanities, University of Tennessee (Publisher's information). € 142.67 (New) (Printed on Demand) (approx. delivery time: 4 weeks) ISBN: 9780199732586