INTRODUCTION; ABBREVIATIONS; A-Z DICTIONARY OF SAINTS; APPENDICES; 1. Principal patronages of saints; 2. Prinicipal iconographical emblems of saints; Index of places; Calendar of the principal feasts; Patron saints of countries and towns; 3. Maps of pilgrimage sites across the world
David Hugh Farmer, formerly Reader in History at Reading University, is the author or editor of nine books. One of these was Magna Vita Sancti Hugonis: The Life of St Hugh of Lincoln by Adam of Eynsham, which he edited with Decima L. Douie for the Oxford Medieval Texts series. Others have been in the related fields of monasticism, Bede and his age, and medieval spirituality.
this delightful array ... the sort of thing that gives hagiography a good name. The Times compulsive reading The Tablet excellent and readable The Guardian Even those who do not believe in saints ... will be able to enjoy and to profit from this splendid book. Economist
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