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Ross provides a broad survey of pictures and texts concerning saints from the Early Christian through the late Gothic period. Both Western and Byzantine material is included. Beginning with the earliest pictures of and stories about saints the book traces the evolution of hagiographic imagery primarily in manuscript contexts. Because of its cross-disciplinary nature it will be of interest to audiences interested in Early Christian Byzantine and Western medieval culture: religion society politics and art. No other book to date is organized similarly in providing detailed descriptions for the identification of medieval manuscripts with hagiographic texts and illustrations.