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Front Cover -- Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- Figures and Tables -- Notes on the Editor and Contributors -- Introduction: Canonization Processes in Context and Comparison -- 1 The Papacy on the Canonization of Saints: between Appropriation, Regulation, and Disinterest -- 2 God's Ordinary and Extraordinary Speech: the Determination of Miracles by the Roman Congregation of Rites in the Early Modern Era -- 3 Transforming an Individual into a Saint and an Accused into a Criminal: Judicial Procedure in Canonization Processes and libri maleficiorum of Italian Communes at the End of the Middle Ages -- 4 The Construction of Information in the Records of Medieval Canonization and Heresy Inquests: a Methodological Comparison -- 5 Testimonies of the Life of the Saint in the Context of Canonization -- 6 Safe and Dangerous Names: Uncovering Connections and Boundaries in the Canonization Inquest for Countess Delphine de Puimichel, 1363 -- 7 Disability, Miracle, and Sainthood in Early Fourteenth-Century Canonization Dossiers -- 8 "Are You Content to Die?" Death Acceptance and Death Denial in Depositions of Canonization Processes -- 9 Writing Microhistory from the Canonizations of Bernardino of Siena and Vincent Ferrer -- 10 Experiencing the Miraculous: Lived Religion in the Depositions -- 11 Scent, Sight, Awe: Examining the Bodily Signs of Sainthood in the Canonization Processes of Dominican Saints -- 12 Canonizations and Jesuit Saints: the Lives and Images amid the Causes for Ignatius Loyola and Francis Xavier -- Bibliography -- Index -- Back Cover.

This volume scrutinizes the inquiries into the life and miracles of a saintly candidate. It focuses on canonization processes' judicial background, structural elements as well as devotional aspects reflected in the depositions. It illuminates the state-of-the-art and topical themes within the field.