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OverviewIn 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Janine Larmon PetersonPublisher: Cornell University Press Imprint: Cornell University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.907kg ISBN: 9781501742347ISBN 10: 1501742345 Pages: 270 Publication Date: 15 December 2019 Recommended Age: From 18 years Audience: General/trade , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsList of 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 IndexReviewsJanine Larmon Peterson has written a book of excellent quality that grapples directly with a wide range of aspects related to sanctity in the Middle Ages. Considerable thought has gone into this book, and it shows. -- George Ferzoco, University of Bristol, co-editor of <I>A Companion to Catherine of Siena</I> Suspect Saints and Holy Heretics is a significant contribution in how we think about responses to political and social change in Italy during the later Middle Ages. A great achievement and worthwhile book. -- Lezlie Knox, Marquette University, author of <I>Creating Clare of Assisi</I> Author InformationJanine Larmon Peterson is Professor of History, Coordinator of the Medieval and Renaissance Studies Program, and Director of the Honors Program at Marist College. She is the Medieval Europe Editor for the Database of Religious History, and has published in Past & Present, Scriptorium, Traditio, and Viator. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |