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Download or read book The Lay Saint written by Mary Harvey Doyno and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2019-10-15 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Lay Saint, Mary Harvey Doyno investigates the phenomenon of saintly cults that formed around pious merchants, artisans, midwives, domestic servants, and others in the medieval communes of northern and central Italy. Drawing on a wide array of sources—vitae documenting their saintly lives and legends, miracle books, religious art, and communal records—Doyno uses the rise of and tensions surrounding these civic cults to explore medieval notions of lay religiosity, charismatic power, civic identity, and the church's authority in this period. Although claims about laymen's and laywomen's miraculous abilities challenged the church's expanding political and spiritual dominion, both papal and civic authorities, Doyno finds, vigorously promoted their cults. She shows that this support was neither a simple reflection of the extraordinary lay religious zeal that marked late medieval urban life nor of the Church's recognition of that enthusiasm. Rather, the history of lay saints' cults powerfully illustrates the extent to which lay Christians embraced the vita apostolic—the ideal way of life as modeled by the Apostles—and of the church's efforts to restrain and manage such claims.

Download or read book Women Men and Spiritual Power written by John W. Coakley and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2006-01-18 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Women, Men, and Spiritual Power, John Coakley explores male-authored narratives of the lives of Catherine of Siena, Hildegard of Bingen, Angela of Foligno, and six other female prophets or mystics of the late Middle Ages. His readings reveal the complex personal and literary relationships between these women and the clerics who wrote about them. Coakley's work also undermines simplistic characterizations of male control over women, offering an important contribution to medieval religious history. Coakley shows that these male-female relationships were marked by a fundamental tension between power and fascination: the priests and monks were supposed to hold authority over the women entrusted to their care, but they often switched roles, as the men became captivated with the women's spiritual gifts. In narratives of such women, the male authors reflect directly on the relationship between the women's powers and their own. Coakley argues that they viewed these relationships as gendered partnerships that brought together female mystical power and male ecclesiastical authority without placing one above the other. Women, Men, and Spiritual Power chronicles a wide-ranging experiment in the balance of formal and informal powers, in which it was assumed to be thoroughly imaginable for both sorts of authority, in their distinctly gendered terms, to coexist and build on each other. The men's writings reflect an extended moment in western Christianity when clerics had enough confidence in their authority to actually question its limits. After about 1400, however, clerics underwent a crisis of confidence, and such a questioning of institutional power was no longer considered safe. Instead of seeing women as partners, their revelatory powers began to be viewed as evidence of witchcraft.

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Download or read book Margherita of Cortona and the Lorenzetti written by Joanna Cannon and published by Penn State University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Margherita of Cortona and the Lorenzetti is an interdisciplinary study that explores the role of art within the growth of the cult of civic saints in fourteenth-century Italy. It focuses on three versions of the story of Margherita of Cortona narrated on a panel painting, in her tomb reliefs, and in the extensive fresco cycle that once decorated her burial church and whose design is here attributed to Pietro and Ambrogio Lorenzetti. These images present an intriguing contrast with the text of Margherita's Legenda, compiled by her Franciscan confessor, which primarily portrays the intensity of her spiritual life, her asceticism, and her visions. The three visual cycles together provide a sequence that demonstrates the changing significance of Margherita for the people of Cortona in the fifty years following her death. The role of that art--predominantly Sienese in workmanship--in shaping medieval perceptions of the saint is also considered. Profuse illustrations, much of them from new photographs specially made for this book, forms integral part of the argument. Margherita of Cortona and the Lorenzetti introduces an important group of works into the discussion of later medieval art and spirituality and demonstrates the value of visual evidence for our knowledge and understanding of civic religion and religious experience, especially among the laity, in the Italy of the communes.

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Download or read book Antica Leggenda della Vita e De Miracoli di S Margherita di Cortona Classic Reprint written by Giunta Bevegnati and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-20 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Antica Leggenda della Vita e De' Miracoli di S. Margherita di Cortona Molto ma poi difl'onanre dall'au.cogrufo in nom poche colle, e mancante non l'olo dell'ultimo capitolo, ma. Ancora del Prologo, e di. Piu e diverti paragrafi anche - in altre fue pani, o totalmente omefi'r, o= trdncati a mezzo colla cifra dell'ecccnm, o lenza, e la. Leggenda di editax preflo i Bollan-di iti: Deli che elli pure fi. Accorfero almeno ia parte, ne mancarono. Di notarlo nel lor...proemio: dove. Afl'erifcono mancare alla Vita di S... Margherita, che cfli i primi danno alla. Luce colle Rampe, il Prologo dell'autore, che comin cia Satis ferventibmt animi.o frufluofum ej? Paravi Efi'c. (che poi trafmefl'o loro dal' Vadingo fupplirono al calce del Tomo del mele di Febbrajo come pure l'intiero capitolo duodecirno De figm's qua: Deus omnipotens ad ipfiuy (b. Margarita: honorem perprapinqua, remotaquc loca peregit, 59 ager: non defini5. E piu Fono foggiungono, che Levibus fubinde m'endis, ne_g pau cr'y, zfperfiun noflrwn (ad eos nempe tranl'mifi'um /jpograp_lmm fuit, nec omnia: corrigerer ex'fola conjeelum licuii. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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