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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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