Besides the full Latin text and the English translation of her oldest legend, written between 1272 and 1275, this volume contains the acts of the 110 testimonies of the papal investigation concerning her sainthood, recorded between July and October 1276 and prepared from existing source editions. In addition, the editors include a series of recently discovered documents, including a petition by the bishop of V rad (Oradea) to promote the cause, and the notarial records of a set of miracles that occurred at Margaret's grave in the second half of the fifteenth century.
The book ends with a selected bibliography of Saint Margaret and of her hagiography.
Ildik¢ Csepregi, a historian of religion, trained as a classicist and medievalist at CEU.
G bor Klaniczay, university professor at CEU, Department of Medieval Studies
Bence P‚terfi is researcher at theInstitute of History at the Research center of the Humanities of the Hungarian Academy of Sciencesÿ