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Late Medieval and Early Modern Ritual English: Studies in Italian Urban Culture: 7 (Europa Sacra, 7) - Tapa dura

Fantoni, Marcello; Franceschi, Franco; Ricciardelli, Fabrizio

 
9782503541907: Late Medieval and Early Modern Ritual English: Studies in Italian Urban Culture: 7 (Europa Sacra, 7)

Sinopsis

Combining aspects of recent scholarship in history and anthropology, this book explores how ‘Survivals and Renewals’ can be used as tools for understanding the society of Late Medieval and Early Modern Italy.

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Críticas

"The editors and the contributors to this volume are to be commended for the richness of the offerings contained within it. [...] ...the volume makes a valuable contribution to the field and will hopefully stimulate further critical analysis of these themes." -- Cecilia Hewlett, The Medieval Review

Reseña del editor

This collection of fifteen studies brings together scholars of late medieval, Renaissance, and early modern Italy to reflect on the multifaceted world of ritual. The scope is expansive, covering four centuries, and the length and breadth of the Italian peninsula. Because of older presumptions about the modernity of the Renaissance and hence its supposed aversion to the irrational, scholarship on ritual life in Italian city-states of the Renaissance has lagged behind the historiography on symbols and rituals in monarchies north of the Alps. Only by the 1990s had a wide range of scholars across disciplines become interested in these subjects and approaches for the late medieval and early modern Italian city-state; yet no synthesis or comparative work on rituals and symbols has peered across the regional enclaves of Italy. Through original research in libraries and archives across the Italian peninsula, these essays analyze the richness and importance of ritual at the heart of the Renaissance and Counter-Reformation states, the importance of oaths, ritual space, the power of images, processions, curses, guild ceremonies, saints, and more. The wide geographic and disciplinary range of these essays provides a new platform for viewing the significance of ritual and symbolic power in Renaissance and early modern Italy.

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