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

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2019]Copyright date: ©2019Description: 1 online resource (330 p.) : 10 b&w halftonesContent type:
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  • 9781501740213
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 282/.450902 23
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  • BX2333 .D696 2019
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  • online - DeGruyter
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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
Summary: 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 legends, miracle books, religious art, and communal records—Doyno uses 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, Doyno finds, vigorously promoted their cults. She 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.
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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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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 legends, miracle books, religious art, and communal records—Doyno uses 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, Doyno finds, vigorously promoted their cults. She 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.

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