Women and Religion in Medieval and Renaissance Italy - Brossura

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0226066398 ISBN 13: 9780226066394

Casa editrice: University of Chicago Press, 1996

Riassunto

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 contributions from leading figures in a new generation of Italian historians of religion, 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 percepts.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Daniel Bornstein is associate professor of history at Texas A&M University.Roberto Rusconi is professor of Church history at the University of L'Aquila.

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Su questa edizione

• Editore: University of Chicago Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0226066398
• ISBN 13: 9780226066394
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 2
• Numero di pagine: 344
• Redattore: Bornstein Daniel, Rusconi Roberto