<p>“There are copious notes to each chapter to back up Dr. Kupfer’s ideas, an extensive bibliography, and, most impressively, over 100 black-and-white plates illustrating the wall paintings and their setting.”</p><p>—Christopher Colven <i>Art Newspaper</i></p>

<p>“We owe much to micro-historians for showing the importance of interpretive theories to determine mentalities and cultural systems, and for bringing to light areas such as parishes that had long resided in the shade (in contrast to big events and larger-than-life personages). We are indebted to Kupfer in particular for her clear and comprehensive explication of these principles, her appreciation for a methodology that allows works of art and architecture to speak, and for a carefully researched treatment of the convention between images and healing.”</p><p>—Gerald Christianson <i>Church History</i></p>

<p>“The book is handsomely produced, with well over a hundred high-quality plates, maps and plans and a full scholarly apparatus. It is, moreover, written in a clear, immediate style, with comparatively few lapses into the impenetrable jargon and fractured syntax that so often disfigure contemporary writing on the body.”</p><p>—Carole Rawcliffe <i>EHR</i></p>

<p>“Author and publisher should be commended for the generous reproduction, in an appendix, of numerous black and white photographs, maps, and sketches. Despite some unevenness in presentation this is a provocative, thoroughly researched monograph that will be of broad interest to historians of medieval religion, charity, and medicine.”</p><p>—Mitchell Lewis Hammond <i>Sixteenth Century Journal</i></p>