Ivan Gerát, . Art & Religion. Leuven: Peeters, 2020, 218 pp., 82 color illustrations.

St. Elizabeth of Hungary (1207‒1231), no less than her prototype St. Francis of Assisi, was an epoch-making spiritual figure who also served as a catalyst for the turn of the early modern era in the western visual arts. Unlike St. Francis, however, St. Elizabeth ‒ as princess, wife, widow, and hospital sister engaged in hands-on care for the poor ‒ is under-recognized as a driver of artistic expression, especially in English-language scholarship. This relative silence is likely due to the location of the earliest and possibly most remarkable survivals from her complicated legacy in art: the Elizabeth Church in Marburg, Germany, and a range of works originating in historic Bohemia, even more a cultural