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Author McCluskey, Karen E

Title NEW SAINTS IN LATE-MEDIAEVAL VENICE, 1200-1500 : a typological study
Published [Place of publication not identified] ROUTLEDGE, 2019

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Series Sanctity in Global Perspective Ser
Sanctity in global perspective.
Summary This book focuses on the comparatively unknown cults of new saints in late-mediaeval Venice. These new saints were near-contemporary citizens who were venerated by their compatriots without official sanction from the papacy. In doing so, the book uncovers a sub-culture of religious expression that has been overlooked in previous scholarship. The study highlights a myriad of hagiographical materials, both visual and textual, created to honour these new saints by members of four different Venetian communities: The Republican government; the monastic orders, mostly Benedictine; the mendicant orders; and local parishes. By scrutinising the hagiographic portraits described in painted vita panels, written vitae, passiones, votive images, sermons and sepulchre monuments, as well as archival and historical resources, the book identifies a specifically Venetian typology of sanctity tied to the idiosyncrasies of the city's site and history. By focusing explicitly on local typological traits, the book produces an intimate and complex portrait of Venetian society and offers a framework for exploring the lived religious experience of late-mediaeval societies beyond the lagoon. As a result, it will be of keen interest to scholars of Venice, lived religion, hagiography, mediaeval history and visual culture
Notes Karen E. McCluskey is Senior Lecturer and Discipline Head (History) at the University of Notre Dame Australia, Sydney, where she teaches mediaeval and Renaissance history, art history and historiography
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Subject Saints -- Cult -- Italy -- Venice
Saints -- Cult.
RELIGION -- Mysticism.
RELIGION -- History.
Saints -- Cult
Italy -- Venice
Form Electronic book
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