The Lay Saint : Charity and Charismatic Authority in Medieval Italy, 1150-1350.

The Lay Saint -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part One: Creating a Lay Ideal -- 1. From Charisma to Charity: Lay Sanctity in the Twelfth-Century Communes -- 2. Charity as Social Justice: The Birth of the Communal Lay Saint -- 3. Civic Patron as Ideal Citizen: The Cult of Pier "Pettinaio" of Siena -- Part Two: The Female Lay Saint -- 4. Classifying Laywomen: The Female Lay Saint before 1289 -- 5. Zita of Lucca: The Outlier -- Part Three: From Civic Saint to Lay Visionary -- 6. Margaret of Cortona: Between Civic Saint and Franciscan Visionary -- 7. Envisioning an Order: The Last Lay Saints -- Epilogue -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.

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