Women and Religion in Medieval and Renaissance Italy

Name: Women and Religion in Medieval and Renaissance Italy
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ISBN: 9780226066370

ISBN-10: 0226066371

ISBN-13: 9780226066370

Edition: 1996

Authors: Daniel Bornstein, Margery J. Schneider, Roberto Rusconi

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Between the twelfth and the sixteenth centuries, women assumed public roles of unprecedented prominence in Italian religious culture. Legally subordinated, politically excluded, socially limited, and ideologically disdained, women's active participation in religious life offered them access to power in all its forms. These essays explore the involvement of women in religious life throughout northern and central Italy and trace the evolution of communities of pious women as they tried to achieve their devotional goals despite the strictures of the ecclesiastical hierarchy. The contributors examine relations between holy women, their devout followers, and society at large. Including…

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List price: $99.00
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 7/15/1996
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 344
Size: 0.62" wide x 0.93" long x 0.09" tall
Weight: 1.408
Language: English



Foreword



Preface



Women and Religion in Late Medieval Italy: History and Historiography




A Community of Female Penitents in Thirteenth-Century




Clare, Agnes, and Their Earliest Followers: From the Poor Ladies of San Damiano to the Poor Clares




Anchoresses and Penitents in Thirteenth- and Fourteenth-Century Umbria




Mendicant Friars and Female Pinzochere in Tuscany: From Social Marginality to Models of Sanctity




The Apostolic Canonization Proceedings of Clare of Montefalco, 1318-1319




Female, Mystics, Visions, and Iconography




Imitable Sanctity: The Legend of Maria of Venice




St. Bernardino of Siena, the Wife, and Possessions




St. Francesca and the Female Religious Communities of Fifteenth-Century Rome




Living Saints: A Typology of Female Sanctity in the Early Sixteenth Century Gabriella Zarri Afterword: Women Religious in Late Medieval Italy: New Sources and Directions



Index