Suspect Saints and Holy Heretics Disputed Sanctity and Communal Identity in Late Medieval Italy

In 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...

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Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cornell University Press 2019
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