Was Central Europe Indeed a ‘Cold’ Region when It Came to the Cult of Saints? Some Remarks about a Volume Edited by French Historians

Abstract

The article is an analysis of a collection of a dozen or so studies focused on the cult of saints in Central Europe between the eleventhand the early sixteenth centuries. The author points both to the merits of the publication in question (its emphasis on the intensity of the cult of saints and presentation of the subject matter in international conference languages) as well as its shortcomings: leaving out the question of saintly duchesses and saintly Christianizing dukes, and the shortage of articles discussing the analysed phenomena in a broad Central European context.