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Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 8vo. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK. 2002. 512 pgs. Past and Present Publications. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Medieval dynasties relied frequently upon the cult of royal saints for legitimacy, and in the central middle ages most royal dynasties included saints in their family. Within this context, the saints of the Hungarian ruling dynasty constitute a remarkable sequence, and provide a unique example of the late medieval evolution of royal and dynastic sainthood. Building upon a series of case studies from Hungary and central Europe, Gábor Klaniczay proposes an original new synthesis of the multiple forms and transformations of royal and dynastic sainthood. E-206; Past And Present Publications; 9.3 X 6.2 X 1.4 inches; 512 pages.…