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The Lay Saint : Charity and Charismatic Authority in Medieval Italy, 1150-1350 /
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, rel...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Ithaca [New York] :
Cornell University Press
2019.
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of 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.