The Lay Saint : : Charity and Charismatic Authority in Medieval Italy, 1150–1350 /

The Lay Saint : : Charity and Charismatic Authority in Medieval Italy, 1150–1350 / / Mary Harvey Doyno.

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In The Lay Saint, Mary Harvey Doyno 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 a wide array of sources—vitae documenting their saintly lives and...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2019
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Doyno, Mary Harvey,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2019]
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Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (330 p.) :; 10 b&w halftones
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Part One: Creating a Lay Ideal
  • 1. From Charisma to Charity: Lay Sanctity in the Twelfth-Century Communes
  • 2. Charity as Social Justice: The Birth of the Communal Lay Saint
  • 3. Civic Patron as Ideal Citizen: The Cult of Pier “Pettinaio” of Siena
  • Part Two: The Female Lay Saint
  • 4. Classifying Laywomen: The Female Lay Saint before 1289
  • 5. Zita of Lucca: The Outlier
  • Part Three: From Civic Saint to Lay Visionary
  • 6. Margaret of Cortona: Between Civic Saint and Franciscan Visionary
  • 7. Envisioning an Order: The Last Lay Saints
  • Epilogue
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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