The Bianchi of 1399 in Central Italy

Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-90-04-46598-5
Verlag: Koninklijke Brill BV

Buch, Englisch, Band 129, 284 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 597 g

Reihe: The Bianchi of 1399 in Central Italy

Providing new insights into the Bianchi devotions, a medieval popular religious revival which responded to an outbreak of plague at the turn of the fifteenth century, this book takes a comparative, local and regional approach to the Bianchi, challenging traditional presentations of the movement as homogeneous whole.

Combining a rich collection of textual, visual, and material sources, the study focuses on the two Tuscan towns of Lucca and Pistoia. Alexandra R.A. Lee demonstrates how the Bianchi processions in central Italy were moulded by secular and ecclesiastical authorities and shaped by local traditions as they attempted to prevent an epidemic.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lee, Alexandra R.A.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Vor- und Frühgeschichte, prähistorische Archäologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Kirchengeschichte

Über Autor(innen)

Alexandra R.A. Lee, Ph.D. (2017), University College London, teaches at that university. She has published articles on religious confraternities and the Bianchi of 1399.