Women and religion in medieval and Renaissance Italy
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Women and religion in medieval and Renaissance Italy
（Women in culture and society : a series / edited by Catharine R. Stimpson）
University of Chicago Press, 1996
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Mistiche e devote nell'Italia tardomedievale
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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: cloth ISBN 9780226066370
Description
Between the 12th and the 16th 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. This book shows how women were able to carve out broad areas of influence by carefully exploiting the institutional church and by astutely manipulating religious precepts.
Table of Contents
Foreword by Catharine R. Stimpson Preface 1: Women and Religion in Late Medieval Italy: History and Historiography Daniel Bornstein 2: A Community of Female Penitents in Thirteenth-Century Padua Antonio Rigon 3: Clare, Agnes, and Their Earliest Followers: From the Poor Ladies of San Damiano to the Poor Clares Clara Gennaro 4: Anchoresses and Penitents in Thirteenth- and Fourteenth-Century Umbria Mario Sensi 5: Mendicant Friars and Female Pinzochere in Tuscany: From Social Marginality to Models of Sanctity Anna Benvenuti Papi 6: The Apostolic Canonization Proceedings of Clare of Montefalco, 1318-1319 Enrico Menesto 7: Female, Mystics, Visions, and Iconography Chiara Frugoni 8: Imitable Sanctity: The Legend of Maria of Venice Fernanda Sorelli 9: St. Bernardino of Siena, the Wife, and Possessions Roberto Rusconi 10: St. Francesca and the Female Religious Communities of Fifteenth-Century Rome Anna Esposito 11: 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 Roberto Rusconi Index
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: pbk ISBN 9780226066394
Description
Between the 12th and the 16th 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. This book shows how women were able to carve out broad areas of influence by carefully exploiting the institutional church and by astutely manipulating religious precepts.
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