Lay Saint
Subtitle: Charisma, Charity, and Religious Authority in Medieval Italy, 1150-1350
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2019
Language: eng
Number of pages: 330
ISBN-13: 9781501740206
Description: "The Lay Saint explores the numerous saintly cults dedicated to recently deceased members of the laity that grew up in the communes of late medieval Italy and shows how they both challenged and ultimately solidified the church's institutional and charismatic authority"--