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

Name: Suspect Saints and Holy Heretics: Disputed Sanctity and Communal Identity in Late Medieval Italy
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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's orthodoxy. As she demonstrates, communities that venerated saints increasingly clashed with popes and inquisitors determined to erode any local claims of religious authority. Local and unsanctioned saints were spiritual and social fixtures in the towns of northern and central Italy in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. In some cases, popes allowed these saints' cults; in others, church officials condemned the saint and/or their followers as heretics. Using a wide range of secular and clerical sources―including vitae, inquisitorial and canonization records, chronicles, and civic statutes―Peterson explores who these unofficial saints were, how the phenomenon of disputed sanctity arose, and why communities would be willing to risk punishment by continuing to venerate a local holy man or woman. She argues that the Church increasingly restricted sanctification in the later Middle Ages, which precipitated new debates over who had the authority to recognize sainthood and what evidence should be used to identify holiness and heterodoxy. The case studies she presents detail how the political climate of the Italian peninsula allowed Italian communities to use saints' cults as a tool to negotiate religious and political autonomy in opposition to growing papal bureaucratization. Open Access edition funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities

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Brand: Cornell University Press
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 1501742345
Category: Books > Subjects > History > Europe > Italy
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 15 December 2019
Listed Since: 03 April 2019

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