{"product_id":"women-and-religion-in-medieval-and-renaissance-italy-9780226066370","title":"Women and Religion in Medieval and Renaissance","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis work shows how women between the 12th and 16th centuries were able to carve out areas of influence by exploiting the institutional church and by manipulating religious precepts. Contributors argue that women's participation in religious life offered them access to power in all its forms.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eForeword by Catharine R. Stimpson  Preface  1: Women and Religion in Late Medieval Italy: History and Historiography  Daniel Bornstein  2: A Community of Female Penitents in Thirteenth-Century Padua  Antonio Rigon  3: Clare, Agnes, and Their Earliest Followers: From the Poor Ladies of San Damiano to the Poor Clares  Clara Gennaro  4: Anchoresses and Penitents in Thirteenth- and Fourteenth-Century Umbria  Mario Sensi  5: Mendicant Friars and Female Pinzochere in Tuscany: From Social Marginality to Models of Sanctity  Anna Benvenuti Papi  6: The Apostolic Canonization Proceedings of Clare of Montefalco, 1318-1319  Enrico Menesto  7: Female, Mystics, Visions, and Iconography  Chiara Frugoni  8: Imitable Sanctity: The Legend of Maria of Venice  Fernanda Sorelli  9: St. Bernardino of Siena, the Wife, and Possessions  Roberto Rusconi  10: St. Francesca and the Female Religious Communities of Fifteenth-Century Rome  Anna Esposito  11: Living Saints: A Typology of Female Sanctity in the Early Sixteenth Century  Gabriella Zarri  Afterword: Women Religious in Late Medieval Italy: New Sources and Directions  Roberto Rusconi  Index","brand":"The University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51036475425111,"sku":"9780226066370","price":76.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780226066370.jpg?v=1750932169","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/women-and-religion-in-medieval-and-renaissance-italy-9780226066370","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}