Competing Saints in late medieval Padua

Kohl, Benjamin G. (2014) Competing Saints in late medieval Padua. In: Venice and the Veneto during the Renaissance: the Legacy of Benjamin Kohl. Reti Medievali E-Book (21). Firenze University Press, Firenze, pp. 323-366. ISBN 978-88-6655-663-3

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Abstract

This article addresses the question of the evolution of civic ritual in late medieval Europe between the early thirteenth and early fifteenth centuries. Arguing for the importance of the participants as well as the planners of civic ritual, and for the need to contextualize the forms of ritual behaviour, it also offers a new case study: the changing civic calendar and the celebration of feast days in the northern Italian city of Padua. It publishes for the first time documentary evidence for the patronage and iconography of saints’ days in Padua, drawing heavily on the city’s statutes, and aims to interpret what it was that religious and civic officials – as well as Padua’s citizens and inhabitants – intended and experienced. It not only throws light on the reverence for universal and local saints in the Paduan Christian calendar, but also focuses on the festivals, holidays, fairs, parish life and churches of late medieval Padua and its contado.

Item Type:	Book Section
Additional Information:	Edited by John E. Law. - Nella sezione: "Society, Religion and Art".
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Middle Ages; 13th-15th century; Padua; Hagiography; Devotion; Art; Iconography; Patronage; Statutes
Subjects:	D History General and Old World > D History (General) > D111 Medieval History
Depositing User:	dr Vincenzo De Luise
Date Deposited:	13 Apr 2019 14:15
Last Modified:	06 Oct 2024 13:09
URI:	http://www.rmoa.unina.it/id/eprint/5009

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