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

Abstract

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.