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The Renaissance pulpit : art and preaching in Tuscany : 1400-1550
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ISBN: 9782503513423 2503513425 Year: 2007 Volume: 6 Publisher: Turnhout : Brepols,

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Renaissance Florence in the Rhetoric of two popular Preachers : Giovanni Dominici (1356-1419) and Bernardino da Siena (1380-1444)
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ISBN: 2503511635 9782503511634 Year: 2001 Volume: 4 Publisher: Turnhout : Brepols,

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The preaching of the Dominican friar Girolamo Savonarola and the period of his dominance (1494-1498) are a well-known chapter in the history of Renaissance Florence. However, comparatively less research has been done on Savonarola's predecessors, the mendicant preachers of Florence in the first half of the fifteenth century. The Dominican Giovanni Dominici (1356-1419) and the Franciscan Bernardino da Siena (1380-1444) were the most important of these preachers. Dominici's and Bernardino's sermons, as they appear in Tuscan reports (reportationes) of their preaching, are a valuable historical source. Written down by anonymous listeners, these are the major reports of sermons preached in fifteenth-century Florence before Savonarola. The reportationes are unique in that they transmit in full the actual preaching event and are not merely a doctrinal summary composed by the preacher. Many of these sermons are still in manuscript form, especially those of Dominici, which have never been studied in detail and remain unpublished to this day. Dominici and Bernardino were active in Florence at a time when broad legal, social and cultural changes were taking place. The central purpose of this study is to examine the response of these preachers to the changes, the alternatives they offered and their attempts to direct the life of the laity. The four principal chapters are devoted to the preachers' opinions on secular and ecclesiastical politics, education and humanism, morality and the family and the economy and usury (the role of the Jews), the discussion built around a comparison between the two preachers. Although they differed in their interests and in their style - the unbending Dominici concentrating on politics and culture while the more flexible Bernardino focused on morality and the economy - they shared ideologies.


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The Cult of St Clare of Assisi in Early Modern Italy
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ISBN: 9781138248243 Year: 2014 Publisher: Routledge

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Iconografia di Santa Chiara d'Assisi in Italia tra medioevo e Rinascimento
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ISBN: 9788879622738 8879622730 Year: 2017 Publisher: Milano: Biblioteca francescana,

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L'intenzione che ha guidato la studiosa israeliana Nirit Ben-Aryeh Debby, docente presso l'Università Ben Gurion del Neghev, è stata quella di presentare la tradizione iconografica di santa Chiara, partendo dalle più famose immagini medievali per giungere sino alla prima età moderna. Mentre a proposito di san Francesco e l'arte esiste una quantità abnorme di studi, gli storici dell'arte hanno invece prestato poca attenzione all'immagine di santa Chiara: le opere che la rappresentano sono state discusse in modo occasionale all'interno degli studi su san Francesco, soffermandosi soprattutto sulla tradizione antica testimoniata in Assisi fra Due e Trecento. Il libro vuole mostrare come le rappresentazioni di santa Chiara nell'arte medievale siano lo sfondo essenziale a partire dal quale diviene possibile verificare gli elementi di novità o di continuità con la tradizione presenti nella prima età moderna.


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Mendicant cultures in the medieval and early modern world : word, deed, and image
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ISBN: 9782503555546 9782503562018 2503555543 2503562019 Year: 2016 Volume: 19 Publisher: Turnhout : Brepols,

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The eleven interdisciplinary essays that comprise this book complement and expand upon a significant body of literature on the history of the Franciscan and Dominican orders during the later Middle Ages and the early modern period. They elucidate and examine the ways in which mendicant friars established, sustained, and transformed their institutional identities and shaped the devotional experiences of the faithful to whom they ministered via verbal and visual culture. Taking primary texts and images as their point of departure, these essays break new scholarly ground by revising previous assumptions regarding mendicant life and actions and analysing sites, works of art, and texts that either have been neglected in the existing literature or that have not been examined through the lens of current methodologies such as sermon studies, ritual, gender, and cross-cultural interactions. Indeed, the varied methods and subjects of these essays demonstrate there is still much to be learned about the mendicant orders and the ways and spaces in which they operated and presented themselves on the local, regional, and global stages.


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Maps and travel in the Middle Ages and the early modern period
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ISBN: 9783110587333 9783110587418 9783110588774 3110588773 3110587416 3110587335 Year: 2019 Publisher: Berlin Boston

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The volume discusses the world as it was known in the Medieval and Early Modern periods, focusing on projects concerned with mapping as a conceptual and artistic practice, with visual representations of space, and with destinations of real and fictive travel. Maps were often taken as straightforward, objective configurations. However, they expose deeply subjective frameworks with social, political, and economic significance. Travel narratives, whether illustrated or not, can address similar frameworks. Whereas travelled space is often adventurous, and speaking of hardship, strange encounters and danger, city portraits tell a tale of civilized life and civic pride. The book seeks to address the multiple ways in which maps and travel literature conceive of the world, communicate a 'Weltbild', depict space, and/or define knowledge. The volume challenges academic boundaries in the study of cartography by exploring the links between mapmaking and artistic practices. The contributions discuss individual mapmakers, authors of travelogues, mapmaking as an artistic practice, the relationship between travel literature and mapmaking, illustration in travel literature, and imagination in depictions of newly explored worlds.

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