title: Medieval Saints: A Reader (Readings in Medieval Civilizations and Cultures)
author: Mary-Ann Stouck
description: "...To read it is to re-live an entire era in the imaginative history of Christian Europe." -- <i>Peter Brown, Princeton University, author of 'The Cult of the Saints: It's Rise and Function in Latin Christianity,' 1981</i>
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  ## [_A Note on Disguises, Rogues & Swords_](nav.xhtml#rnote)
  
  
  Here is something I find truly sexy: a man who is good, kind, and emotionally
  strong, and who wants above all else a woman’s safety and happiness. Put that
  man in tight breeches on a horse, and give him a sword, and he’s just about
  ideal.
  
  
  From the time I first started thinking about Constance’s book years ago, I
  realized she needed that sort of hero. Then as I was writing _I Loved a Rogue_
  , I discovered how Saint helped the hero of that book, Taliesin, when they
  were young men. (This happened in the way that characters often tell a writer
  what to write about them and, if she is wise, the writer obeys.) At that
  moment, Constance and Saint’s love story became clear to me. I knew that he
  would save her not by slaying the bad guys himself, or even by teaching her
  how to slay them, but by showing her what honest, generous, true love looks
  like. If you would like to read the scene where I came to understand Saint,
  you can f