Here is a reading list for topics covered in the Saints & Sinners in the Society of Renaissance Italy seminar (see also reading list for Fallen Marys):

Rudolph Bell. Holy Anorexia. Univ. of Chicago Press, 1985.

Rudolph Bell and Donald Weinstein. Saints and Society: The Two Worlds of Western Christendom, 1000-1700 Univ. of Chicago Press, 1982.

Daniel Bornstein. “The Uses of the Body: The Church and the Cult of Santa Margherita da Cortona.” Church History, Vol. 62, No. 2 (Jun., 1993), pp. 163-177.

John Bossy. Christianity in the West, 1400-1700, Oxford Univ Press, 1985. 

Judith Brown. Immodest Acts: The Life of a Lesbian Nun in Renaissance Italy. Oxford Univ Press, 1986.

Peter Brown. The Cult of the Saints, Its Rise and Function in Latin Christianity, Univ of Chicago Press, 1981.

Linda Burke “A Sister in the World: Saint Elizabeth of Hungary in the Golden Legend,” The Hungarian Historical Review, Vol. 5, No. 3, Saints Abroad (2016), pp. 509-535.

M. W. Bychowski “The Authentic Lives of Transgender Saints: Imago Dei and imitatio Christi in the Life of St Marinos the Monk” in Trans and Genderqueer Subjects in Medieval Hagiography, ed. Spencer-Hall and Gutt, Amsterdam Univ. Press, 2021, 245–66.

Caroline Walker Bynum. Holy Feast and Holy Fast: The Religious Significance of Food to Medieval Women, Univ. of Calif. Press, 1987.

Nancy Caciola. Discerning Spirits: Divine and Demonic Possession in the Middle Ages, Cornell Univ Press, 2003.

Joanna Cannon and André Vauchez. Margherita of Cortona and the Lorenzetti: Sienese Art and the Cult of a Holy Woman in Medieval Tuscany (extract), Penn State UP, 1999.

The Letters of Catherine of Siena, translated with introduction and notes by Suzanne Noffke. Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2000.

Catherine of Siena: an anthology, Suzanne Noffke, ed., Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2011-2012.

A Companion to Catherine of Siena, Carolyn Muessig, George Ferzoco, Beverly Mayne Kienzle, eds., Brill, 2012.

Sharon Dale. “To the Victors Goes the Hagiography: The Cistercian Frescoes at San Galgano and the Vitae Galgani.” Cîteaux, commentarii cistercienses, 1997, pp. 231-60.

Nirit Ben-Aryeh Debby. “Vittoria Colonna and Titian’s Pitti ‘Magdalen’.” Woman’s Art Journal , Vol. 24, No. 1 (Spring – Summer, 2003), pp. 29-33.

Hippolyte Delehaye. The Legends of the saints; an introduction to Hagiography, trans. Donald Attwater, 1955, Fordham UP, 1962

Mary Harvey Doyno. The Lay Saint: Charity and Charismatic Authority in Medieval Italy, 1150-1350, Cornell Univ Press, 2019.

Mary Harvey Doyno. “The Creation of a Franciscan Lay Saint: Margaret of Cortona and her Legenda,” Past & Present, Volume 228, Issue 1, (Aug 2015) pp. 57-91.

Eamon Duffy. The Stripping of the Altars: Traditional Religion in England, 1400–1580, Yale Univ Press, 1992.

Anne Dunlop. “Once More on the Patronage of Ambrogio Lorenzetti’s Frescoes at S. Galgano, Montesiepi.” Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte, (2000), pp. 387-403.

Unn Falkeid and Anna Wainwright, eds. The Legacy of Birgitta of Sweden: Women, Politics, and Reform in Renaissance Italy. Brill, 2023.

Simon Gaunt. “Straight Minds/Queer Wishes in Old French Hagiography. La Vie di Sainte Euphrosine” in Premodern sexualities, ed. Fradenburg, Freccero, Lavezzo, Routledge, 1996.

Rosa Giorgi. Saints in Art, Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2003. 

Valerie Hotchkiss. Clothes Make the Man: Female Cross Dressing in Medieval Europe, Routledge, 1996.

George Kaftal. Iconography of the Saints in Tuscan Painting, Florence: Sansoni, 1952. 

Trinita Kennedy, ed. Sanctity Pictured: The Art of the Dominican and Franciscan Orders in Renaissance Italy. Philip Wilson Publishers, 2014

Julius Kirshner and Anthony Molho. “The Dowry Fund and the Marriage Market in Early Quattrocento Florence.” The Journal of Modern History, Vol. 50, No. 3 (Sep., 1978), pp. 403-438.

Lisa Kaborycha. “Transvestites, Anchorites, Wives, and Martyrs: The Lives of Female Saints as Read by Fifteenth-Century Florentine Women,” Chronica, Spring 2006, no. 65.

Ruth Mazo Karras. “Holy Harlots: Prostitute Saints in Medieval Legend,” Journal of the History of Sexuality, Jul., 1990, Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 3- 32.

Charles W King. The Ancient Roman Afterlife: Di Manes, Belief, and the Cult of the Dead. Univ of Texas Press, 2020

Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie. Montaillou: The Promised Land of Error and Cathars and Catholics in a French Village, 1978

Lester Little. Religious Poverty and the Profit Economy in Medieval Europe, Cornell Univ Press, 1978. 

F. Thomas Luongo. The Saintly Politics of Catherine of Siena, Cornell Univ Press, 2006.

Louise Marshall. “Manipulating the Sacred: Image and Plague in Renaissance Italy.” Renaissance Quarterly, vol. 47, no. 3, Oct. 1994, pp. 485–532.

Robert Mills. “Visibly Trans?: Picturing Saint Eugenia in Medieval Art” Transgender Studies Quarterly, Nov. 2018, Vol.5 (4), p.540-564.

Marina Montesano. Cross-dressing in the Middle Ages, ch.2  “Transvestite Saints” Routledge, 2024.

Noel Muscat. “Franciscan Rights to Clerical Ministry According to Saint Bonaventure” Franciscan Studies, 2018.

Nerida Newbigin. “Deception, Gender, and Sainthood in the Plays of Santa Eufrosina and Santa Marina” in Il teatro tra Quattrocento e Seicento Studi in onore di Konrad Eisenbichlera ed. Pasquale Sabbat, Federico Univ Press, 2024.

Amy V. Ogden. “St Eufrosine’s Invitation to Gender Transgression” in Trans and Genderqueer Subjects in Medieval Hagiography, ed. Spencer-Hall and Gutt Amsterdam Univ. Press. 2021, pp. 201–21.

Janine Larmon Peterson, “Holy Heretics in Later Medieval Italy,” Past & Present, August 2009, No. 204, pp. 3-31.

Janine Larmon Peterson. Suspect Saints and Holy Heretics, Cornell Univ Press, 2019.

Donald S. Prudlo. “The Assassin-Saint: The Life and Cult of Carino of Balsamo.” The Catholic Historical Review , Jan., 2008, Vol. 94, No. 1 (Jan., 2008), pp. 1-21.

Heribert Rosweyde. Vitae Patrum, Antwerp, 1628, translated into English by Benedict Baker

Patricia Simons. “’Bodily Things’ and Brides of Christ: The case of the early seventeenth-century ‘lesbian nun’ Benedetta Carlini” in Sex, Gender and Sexuality in Renaissance Italy, ed. Murray and Terpstra, Routledge, 2019, pp. 97-124.

Keith Thomas. Religion and the Decline of Magic, Scribner, 1971.

Jocelyn M.C. Toynbee. Death and burial in the Roman world, Cornell Univ Press, 1971.

Jacobus de Voragine The Golden Legend: Readings on the Saints, trans. William Granger Ryan, Princeton Univ Press, 2012.

Cordelia Warr. Stigmatics and Visual Culture in Late Medieval and Early Modern Italy, Amsterdam Univ Press, 2022.

Vanessa Wright. “Illuminating Queer Gender Identity in the Manuscripts of the Vie de sainte Eufrosine,” in Trans and Genderqueer Subjects in Medieval Hagiography, ed. Spencer-Hall and Gutt, Amsterdam Univ. Press. 2021, pp. 155–76.

Gabriella Zarri. “Living Saints: A Typology of Female Sanctity in the Early Sixteenth Century” in Women and Religion in Medieval and Renaissance Italy, Daniel Bornstein and Roberto Rusconi, eds., Margery J. Schneider, trans., Univ. of Chicago Press, 1996.

Andrea-Bianka Znorovszky. “Ave Mari(n)a! Representing a Cross-Dressed Saint in Fourteenth- to Sixteenth-Century Italy/Venice: Influences, Models, and Patterns of Female Sanctity,” Medium Aevum Quotidianum 69 (2014): 45-62.