Revival Preachers and Politics in Thirteenth-Century Italy The Great Devotion of 1233

Name: Revival Preachers and Politics in Thirteenth-Century Italy The Great Devotion of 1233
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ISBN: 9780198202875

ISBN-10: 0198202873

ISBN-13: 9780198202875

Edition: 1992

Authors: Augustine Thompson

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Recent studies of medieval preaching have tended to focus on sermon texts. This is the first scholarly study in English of preaching and its social context in thirteenth-century Italy. Augustine Thompson O.P., both an academic and a preacher, reconstructs the "Great Devotion" of 1233 and analyzes its devotional, social, political, and legal elements. He shows how the preachers of this revival crafted an image of divine authority that supported their intervention in factional disputes and facilitated their arbitration in social and political conflicts. They exploited forms from revived Roman Law and developing city statutes in order to create flexible procedures for mediation, and ultimately…

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List price: $65.00
Copyright year: 1992
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 12/31/1992
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 264
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English

List of tables and maps
A note on proper names and Latin texts
Abbreviations
Introduction
The Great Devotion of 1233
The coming of the preachers
The great prophet of Bologna
Peace campaigns in the North
Revivalism and Politics
The making of a revival
The revivalist as miracle-worker
The revivalist as peace-maker
The revivalist as arbiter
The revivalist as legislator
Conclusion: revivals and politics
Appendix
Bibliography
Index
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