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1 online resource (viii, 318 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
From charisma to charity : lay sanctity in the twelfth-century communes -- Charity as social justice : the birth of the communal lay saint -- Civic patron as ideal citizen : the cult of Pier Pettinaio of Siena -- Classifying laywomen : the female lay saint before 1289 -- Zita of Lucca : the outlier -- Margaret of Cortona : between civic saint and Franciscan visionary -- Envisioning an order : the last lay saints. |
| Summary |
The author investigates the phenomenon of saintly cults that formed around pious merchants, artisans, midwives, domestic servants, and others in the medieval communes of northern and central Italy. Drawing on an array of sources - vitae documenting their saintly lives and legends, miracle books, religious art, and communal records - this book documents the rise of and tensions surrounding these civic cults to explore medieval notions of lay religiosity, charismatic power, civic identity, and the church's authority in this period. Although claims about laymen's and laywomen's miraculous abilities challenged the church's expanding political and spiritual dominion, both papal and civic authorities, the author finds, vigorously promoted their cults. The book shows that this support was neither a simple reflection of the extraordinary lay religious zeal that marked late medieval urban life nor of the Church's recognition of that enthusiasm. Rather, the history of lay saints' cults powerfully illustrates the extent to which lay Christians embraced the vita apostolic - the ideal way of life as modeled by the Apostles - and of the church's efforts to restrain and manage such claims. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Catholic Church -- Italy -- History -- To 1500.
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Catholic Church. |
| Chronological Term |
To 1500 |
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Christian saints -- Cult -- Italy -- History -- To 1500.
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Christian saints -- Cult. |
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History. |
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Italy. |
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Laity -- Catholic Church -- History -- To 1500.
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Laity -- Catholic Church. |
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Sanctification -- Catholic Church.
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Sanctification -- Catholic Church. |
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Italy -- Church history -- 476-1400.
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Church history. |
| Chronological Term |
476-1400 |
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Electronic books.
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Church history.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Doyno, Mary Harvey, 1973- Lay saint. Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, [2019] 9781501740206 (DLC) 2019020872 (OCoLC)1104872038 |
| ISBN |
9781501740220 electronic book |
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1501740229 electronic book |
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9781501740213 electronic book |
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1501740210 electronic book |
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9781501740206 hardcover |
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1501740202 hardcover |
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