12. Observant Reform and the Cults of New Dominican Saints in the Southeastern Adriatic

Ana Marinković; Valentina Živković

doi:10.54195/XFRB6134

12. Observant Reform and the Cults of New Dominican Saints in the Southeastern Adriatic

Authors

Ana Marinković

University of Zagreb

Valentina Živković

Institute for Balkan Studies SASA

DOI: https://doi.org/10.54195/XFRB6134_CH12

Synopsis

This chapter investigates the appearance and diffusion of saints’ cults among the reformed Dominican order along the south-eastern Adriatic coast, that is, in the territory of Dubrovnik and Kotor from the first reformist attempts at the end of the fourteenth century to the Observant efforts united with the post-Tridentine ambience in the later sixteenth century. Among other things, it highlights the role of the Dominican friar Serafino Razzi in propagating specific Observant cults, not only as a preacher, but primarily as the author of hagiographies and adjacent texts.

Author Biographies

Ana Marinković, University of Zagreb

Ana Marinković is Assistant Professor at the Art History Department of the University of Zagreb (FFZg), holding a PhD in medieval studies from the Central European University in Budapest (2013). She is a founding member of the Croatian Hagiography Society Hagiotheca. Her current research focuses on the local contexts of church reforms and Observant cults, and the spatial responses to changes in political governing and ecclesiastical discipline in the medieval and early modern cities of the Eastern Adriatic.

Valentina Živković, Institute for Balkan Studies SASA

Valentina Živković is a Principal Research Fellow at the Institute for Balkan Studies SASA (PhD University of Belgrade, 2007). Her research focuses on late medieval and early modern art and devotion in the Southeastern Adriatic city of Kotor, with a focus on cultural and religious ties between the two Adriatic coasts, cults of saints, Observant reform of the Dominican order, female monasticism, testamentary legacies for the salvation of the soul, the role of prayers and miracle-working images.