A People's Church

Medieval Italy and Christianity, 1050–1300

Agostino Paravicini Bagliani, Neslihan Şenocak (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

444 Seiten

2023
Cornell University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5017-1677-5 (ISBN)

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A People's Church brings together a distinguished international group of historians to provide a sweeping introduction to Christian religious life and institutions in medieval Italy. Each essay treats a single theme as broadly as possible, highlighting both the unique aspects of medieval Christianity on the Italian peninsula and the beliefs and practices it shared with other Christian societies. Because of its long tradition of communal self-governance, Christianity in medieval Italy, perhaps more than anywhere else, was truly a "people's church." At the same time, its exceptional urban wealth and literacy rates, along with its rich and varied intellectual and artistic culture, led to diverse forms of religious devotion and institutions.

Contributors: Maria Pia Alberzoni on heresy; Frances Andrews on urban religion; Cécile Caby on monasticism; Giovanna Casagrande on mendicants; George Dameron on Florence; Antonella Degl'Innocenti on saints; Marina Gazzini on lay confraternities; Maureen C. Miller on bishops; Agostino Paravicini Bagliani and Pietro Silanos on the papacy and Italian politics; Antonio Rigon on clerical confraternities; Neslihan Şenocak on the pievi and care of souls; Giovanni Vitolo on Naples.

Agostino Paravicini Bagliani is Professor Emeritus of Medieval History at the University of Lausanne and President of the International Societyof the Latin Middle Ages. He is the author or editor of more than thirty books, including The Pope's Body. Neslihan Şenocak is Associate Professor of History at Columbia University. She is the author of The Poor and the Perfect and coeditor of Lateran IV.

1. A View of the Historiography

2. The Papacy and Italian Politics

3. Bishops

4. Pievi and the Care of Souls

5. Monasticism

6. Lay Confraternities

7. Clerical Confraternities

8. Mendicants

9. Saints

10. Heresy

11. Urban Religion

12. Case Study I: Florence

13. Case Study 2: Naples

Erscheinungsdatum	25.05.2023
Zusatzinfo	2 Halftones, black and white
Verlagsort	Ithaca
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	907 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Mittelalter
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Religionsgeschichte
	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
ISBN-10	1-5017-1677-8 / 1501716778
ISBN-13	978-1-5017-1677-5 / 9781501716775
Zustand	Neuware