Related Books

The Spiritual Power: Republican Florence under Interdict
Language: en
Pages: 222
Authors: Richard C. Trexler
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-10-11 - Publisher: BRILL

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

A folk adaptation of the American black spiritual in which the Lord instructs Noah to "build him an arky, arky" out of "hickory barky, barky."
Italian Confraternities in the Sixteenth Century
Language: en
Pages: 340
Authors: Christopher F. Black
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2003-08-28 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Confraternities were - and are - religious brotherhoods for lay people to promote their religious life in common. Though designed to prepare for the afterlife,
Cultural Exchange in Early Modern Europe
Language: en
Pages: 437
Authors: Robert Muchembled
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2006 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This volume, first published in 2007, examines the role of religion as a vehicle for cultural exchange.
The Saintly Politics of Catherine of Siena
Language: en
Pages: 252
Authors: F. Thomas Luongo
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-07-05 - Publisher: Cornell University Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Saint Catherine of Siena (1347–1380) has become a defining figure in the history of medieval religion and one of the main exemplars of the "feminine turn" in
Religion paysanne et religion urbaine en Toscane (c.1280-c.1450)
Language: en
Pages: 332
Authors: Charles M. de la Roncière
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2024-10-28 - Publisher: Taylor & Francis

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

The subject of this volume is that of the establishment and embedding in the Tuscan countryside, and especially round Florence, of the new forms of piety propag