Suspect Saints and Holy Heretics
Subtitle: Disputed Sanctity and Communal Identity in Late Medieval Italy
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2019
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9781501742347
Subjects: Christian sects
Description: "This book explores cases of disputed sanctity in thirteenth- and fourteenth-century Italy, examining how local communities used saints' cults as a tool to challenge papal authority"--