Fr om the table of contents:
1. Shifting Identities: From a Roman Matron to Matrona Dei in the Passio Sanctarum Perpetuae et Felicitatis (Thomas J. Heffernan)
2. Martyr Cult and Collective Identity in Fourth-Century Rome (Marianne Saghy)
3. Passio Sancti Iusti Martyris: A Late Antique Statement of Roman Identity vis-a-vis Domination from the East (MS Verona, Biblioteca Capitolare XCV) (Luciana Cuppo)
4. The Theological Other: Religious and Narrative Identity in Fifth to Seventh Century Byzantine Miracle Collections (Ildiko Csepregi)
5. The 'Odor of Sanctity': Defining Identity and Alterity in the Early Middle Ages (Fifth to Ninth Century) (Martin Roch)
6. Absolute Alterity in the Cult of Saints: Saint Nobody (Lucie Dolezalova)
7. Building a British Identity: Jocelin of Furness's Use of Sources in Vita Kentigerni (Lindsay McArthur Irvin)
8. Regionalism and Identity: Localizing the Cult of Mary in Medieval Wales (Jane Cartwright)
9. The Cult of St Barbara and the Saxon Community of Late Medieval Transylvania (Maria Craciun)
10. Hungarians as 'Saintly Pagans' in late Medieval Western Literature (David Falway)
11. Tamquam lupi rapaces: Dynamics of the Image of Venetian Army in the Hagiography of Trogir (Ana Marinkovic)
12. Family vs Order: Saint Thomas Aquinas' Dominican Habit in the Narrative Tradition of the Order (Marika Rasanen)
13. Necromancers and Saints from Simon Magus to Albertus Magnus: The Medieval Background to a Fifteenth-Century Problem (David J. Collins)
14. Anti-Jewish Motifs in the Poetry of Blessed Wladyslaw of Gielniow (c. 1440-1505) (Rafal Wojcik)
15. Closing the Borders: St Francis at Orta (Cynthia Ho)
16. The 'Significant Other' in Canonizations in the First Half of the Eighteenth Century (Raeleen Chai-Elsholz)