Politics and Prophecy in the <i>Life</i> of Umiliana dei Cerchi
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Abstract
Prophetic power, a topos in hagiographic texts, can be strategically utilised in a variety of ways. Political prophecy, in particular, shows how certain individuals, with their manifold qualities both as saints and as ordinary human beings, touch public life. While prophetic power links the saint with the supernatural, political prophecy grounds the saint in the world both during life and after death. This paper addresses both the political and the prophetic in the oldest extant Life of the thirteenth-century Florentine mystic, Umiliana dei Cerchi, written by the Franciscan friar Vito of Cortona shortly after her death in 1246. In particular, I shall focus on the ways in which the account of her prophetic powers blurs the line between public and private, personal and political. That is, where previously Umiliana's cult has been studied for its political connections, I will concentrate here on Umiliana herself, in life and after death, as representative of political forces.
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| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.000 |
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