Why Can the Dead Do Such Great Things?

“An indispensable point of departure for anyone interested in the cult of the saints in the Middle Ages.” —Eamon Duffy, The New York Review of Books From its earliest centuries, one of the most notable features of Christianity has been the veneration of the saints—the holy dead. This ambitious history tells the fascinating story of the cult of the saints from its origins in the second-century days of the Christian martyrs to the Protestant Reformation. Robert Bartlett examines all of the most im