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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 i
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- Author
- Mary Harvey Doyno
- Publisher
- Cornell Univercity Press
- Published
- 2019
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781501740213
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- History, Humanities
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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