The Lay SaintIn The Lay Saint, Mary Harvey Doyno investigates the phenomenon of saintly cults that formed around pious merchants, artisans, midwives, domestic servants, and others in the medieval communes of northern and central Italy. Drawing on a wide array of sourcesvitae documenting their saintly lives and legends, miracle books, religious art, and communal recordsDoyno uses the rise of and tensions surrounding these civic cults to explore medieval notions of