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Women and religion in medieval and Renaissance Italy
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Women and religion in medieval and Renaissance Italy

Author: Daniel Ethan Bornstein; Roberto Rusconi
Publisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1996.
Series: Women in culture and society
Edition/Format: Book : Biography : English
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Material Type: Biography, Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Daniel Ethan Bornstein; Roberto Rusconi
ISBN: 0226066371 9780226066370 0226066398 9780226066394
OCLC Number: 33276102
Description: x, 334 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Contents: Women and religion in late medieval Italy: history and historiography -- A community of female penitents in thirteenth-century Padua -- 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 -- Women religious in late medieval Italy: new sources and directions.
Series Title: Women in culture and society
Other Titles: Mistiche e devote nell'Italia tardomedievale.
Responsibility: edited by Daniel Bornstein and Roberto Rusconi ; translated by Margery J. Schneider.
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