Suspect Saints and Holy Heretics : Disputed Sanctity and Communal Identity in Late Medieval Italy

Suspect Saints and Holy Heretics Disputed Sanctity and Communal Identity in Late Medieval Italy

In Suspect Saints and Holy Heretics Janine Larmon Peterson investigates regional saints whose holiness was contested. She scrutinizes the papacy's toleration of unofficial saints' cults and its response when their devotees challenged church authority about a cult's merits or the saint...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Peterson, Janine Larmon, author (author)
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press [2019]
Series:Cornell scholarship online.
Subjects:
Catholic Church > Italy > History > To 1500.
Christian saints > Cult > Italy > History > To 1500.
Christian saints > Cult > History of doctrines > Middle Ages, 600-1500.
Sanctification > Catholic Church.
Canonization.
Papacy > History.
Italy > Church history > 476-1400.
See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009800336506719
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Tables and Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • 1. Tolerated Saints
  • 2. Suspect Saints
  • 3. Heretical Saints
  • 4. Holy Heretics
  • 5. Economics, Patronage, and Politics
  • 6. Anti-Inquisitorialism to Antimendicantism
  • 7. Papal Politics and Communal Contestation
  • 8. Methods of Contesting Authority
  • Conclusion
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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