The saint and the chopped-up baby : the cult of Vincent Ferrer in medieval and early modern Europe /

Smoller, Laura Ackerman, 1960-

The saint and the chopped-up baby : the cult of Vincent Ferrer in medieval and early modern Europe / Laura Ackerman Smoller. - Ithaca : Cornell University Press, (c)2014. - 1 online resource.

Includes bibliographies and index.

The situation -- The process of canonization -- Shaping the narratives of the saint -- Creating the official image of the saint -- Competing stories : whose Vincent Ferrer is it, anyway? -- The afterlife of the chopped-up baby : the sixteenth century and beyond -- Epilogue : Saint Vincent Ferrer in the Spanish Americas.



9780801470974


Christian hagiography--History--To 1500.


Electronic Books.

BX4700 / .S256 2014