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Examines the relationship between religion and society in late medieval Florence through the vehicle of the religious confraternity. This book also provides an account of the development of confraternities in relation to other communal and ecclesiastical institutions in Florence.

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List of Plates List of Figures List of Tables List of Abbreviations Introduction 1: Fraternity and Fraternities in Medieval Italy 2: The Confraternities of Late Medieval Florence: An Overview 3: The Laudesi Companies 4: Penitence and Penitents 5: Death, Funerals, and Bequests 6: Piety and Charity: Orsanmichele and a Public Cult 7: Charity and the Poor before the Black Death 8: Charity, the Poor, and the Aftermath of the Black Death, 1348-1400 9: Charity in Fifteenth-Century Florence 10: The Secular and the Sacred Appendix: Confraternities Meeting in Florence, 1240-1499 Bibliography Index

Piety and Charity in Late Medieval Florence

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      Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
      Publication Date: 15/05/1997
      ISBN13: 9780226326887, 978-0226326887
      ISBN10: 0226326888
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Examines the relationship between religion and society in late medieval Florence through the vehicle of the religious confraternity. This book also provides an account of the development of confraternities in relation to other communal and ecclesiastical institutions in Florence.

      Table of Contents
      List of Plates List of Figures List of Tables List of Abbreviations Introduction 1: Fraternity and Fraternities in Medieval Italy 2: The Confraternities of Late Medieval Florence: An Overview 3: The Laudesi Companies 4: Penitence and Penitents 5: Death, Funerals, and Bequests 6: Piety and Charity: Orsanmichele and a Public Cult 7: Charity and the Poor before the Black Death 8: Charity, the Poor, and the Aftermath of the Black Death, 1348-1400 9: Charity in Fifteenth-Century Florence 10: The Secular and the Sacred Appendix: Confraternities Meeting in Florence, 1240-1499 Bibliography Index

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