LEADER 04104nam 22006255 450 001 9910822247903321 005 20220307174614.0 010 $a1-5017-4235-3 024 7 $a10.7591/9781501742354 035 $a(CKB)4100000009835514 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5964892 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse75917 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0002252783 035 $a(DE-B1597)527357 035 $a(OCoLC)1097366700 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781501742354 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000009835514 100 $a20200406h20192019 fg 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aSuspect Saints and Holy Heretics $eDisputed Sanctity and Communal Identity in Late Medieval Italy /$fJanine Larmon Peterson 210 1$aIthaca, NY :$cCornell University Press,$d[2019] 210 4$dİ2019 215 $a1 online resource (270 pages) 225 1 $aCornell scholarship online 300 $aPreviously issued in print: 2019. 311 $a1-5017-4236-1 311 $a1-5017-4234-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter --$tContents --$tTables and Illustrations --$tAcknowledgments --$tAbbreviations --$tIntroduction --$t1. Tolerated Saints --$t2. Suspect Saints --$t3. Heretical Saints --$t4. Holy Heretics --$t5. Economics, Patronage, and Politics --$t6. Anti-Inquisitorialism to Antimendicantism --$t7. Papal Politics and Communal Contestation --$t8. Methods of Contesting Authority --$tConclusion --$tBibliography --$tIndex 330 $aIn Suspect Saints and Holy Heretics Janine Larmon Peterson investigates regional saints whose holiness was contested. She scrutinizes the papacy's toleration of unofficial saints' cults and its response when their devotees challenged church authority about a cult's merits or the saint's orthodoxy. As she demonstrates, communities that venerated saints increasingly clashed with popes and inquisitors determined to erode any local claims of religious authority.Local and unsanctioned saints were spiritual and social fixtures in the towns of northern and central Italy in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. In some cases, popes allowed these saints' cults; in others, church officials condemned the saint and/or their followers as heretics. Using a wide range of secular and clerical sources-including vitae, inquisitorial and canonization records, chronicles, and civic statutes-Peterson explores who these unofficial saints were, how the phenomenon of disputed sanctity arose, and why communities would be willing to risk punishment by continuing to venerate a local holy man or woman. She argues that the Church increasingly restricted sanctification in the later Middle Ages, which precipitated new debates over who had the authority to recognize sainthood and what evidence should be used to identify holiness and heterodoxy. The case studies she presents detail how the political climate of the Italian peninsula allowed Italian communities to use saints' cults as a tool to negotiate religious and political autonomy in opposition to growing papal bureaucratization. 410 0$aCornell scholarship online. 606 $aChristian saints$xCult$zItaly$xHistory$yTo 1500 606 $aChristian saints$xCult$xHistory of doctrines$yMiddle Ages, 600-1500 606 $aSanctification$xCatholic Church 606 $aCanonization 606 $aPapacy$xHistory 607 $aItaly$xChurch history$y476-1400 610 $asainthood, inquisition, identity, Italy, politics. 615 0$aChristian saints$xCult$xHistory 615 0$aChristian saints$xCult$xHistory of doctrines 615 0$aSanctification$xCatholic Church. 615 0$aCanonization. 615 0$aPapacy$xHistory. 676 $a235/.2094509022 700 $aPeterson$b Janine Larmon$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$01684926 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910822247903321 996 $aSuspect Saints and Holy Heretics$94056685 997 $aUNINA