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    "description": "Hagiography, crusading and papal administration were inextricably intertwined in the Middle Ages: papal administration was elemental in making new saints and evaluating miracles as well as in financing and promoting crusades; saints were used in crusading propaganda and to back up the authority of popes; occasionally crusaders became saints and their efforts were instrumental in reinforcing church's authority. Nevertheless, in current scholarship these three themes are rarely dealt with together. Popes, Saints and Crusaders. Approaches to Church and Belief in the Middle Ages fills this gap by combining these approaches and analysing particularly large spectrum of medieval source material: normative, narrative and administrative. By enabling comparison between different fields that are typically studied separately this volume offers a 'big picture' without being a generalization; thirteen in-depth articles draw links between different perspectives and themes creating a profound image of working of church and practices of Christianity in the Middle Ages.\n",
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