Piety and Plague
Title | Piety and Plague PDF eBook |
Author | Franco Mormando |
Publisher | Penn State Press |
Pages | 533 |
Release | 2007-10-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 161248008X |
Plague was one of the enduring facts of everyday life on the European continent, from earliest antiquity through the first decades of the eighteenth century. It represents one of the most important influences on the development of Europe’s society and culture. In order to understand the changing circumstances of the political, economic, ecclesiastical, artistic, and social history of that continent, it is important to understand epidemic disease and society’s response to it. To date, the largest portion of scholarship about plague has focused on its political, economic, demographic, and medical aspects. This interdisciplinary volume offers greater coverage of the religious and the psychological dimensions of plague and of European society’s response to it through many centuries and over a wide geographical terrain, including Byzantium. This research draws extensively upon a wealth of primary sources, both printed and painted, and includes ample bibliographical reference to the most important secondary sources, providing much new insight into how generations of Europeans responded to this dread disease.
Piety and Plague
Title | Piety and Plague PDF eBook |
Author | Franco Mormando |
Publisher | Penn State Press |
Pages | 342 |
Release | 2007-10-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0271090774 |
Plague was one of the enduring facts of everyday life on the European continent, from earliest antiquity through the first decades of the eighteenth century. It represents one of the most important influences on the development of Europe’s society and culture. In order to understand the changing circumstances of the political, economic, ecclesiastical, artistic, and social history of that continent, it is important to understand epidemic disease and society’s response to it. To date, the largest portion of scholarship about plague has focused on its political, economic, demographic, and medical aspects. This interdisciplinary volume offers greater coverage of the religious and the psychological dimensions of plague and of European society’s response to it through many centuries and over a wide geographical terrain, including Byzantium. This research draws extensively upon a wealth of primary sources, both printed and painted, and includes ample bibliographical reference to the most important secondary sources, providing much new insight into how generations of Europeans responded to this dread disease.
Plague chec[kt]; or, Piety will either prev[ent]or alter the property of the Plagu[e]: held forth ... in a letter written by a Friend to s[ome]of his godly friends, etc. [Edited by C. B. and S. H., etc.]
Title | Plague chec[kt]; or, Piety will either prev[ent]or alter the property of the Plagu[e]: held forth ... in a letter written by a Friend to s[ome]of his godly friends, etc. [Edited by C. B. and S. H., etc.] PDF eBook |
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Pages | 100 |
Release | 1665 |
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Queen of Sorrows
Title | Queen of Sorrows PDF eBook |
Author | Bianca M. Lopez |
Publisher | Cornell University Press |
Pages | 139 |
Release | 2024-09-15 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1501775936 |
Queen of Sorrows takes an original approach to both late-medieval Italian history and the history of Christianity, using quantitative and qualitative analyses of a remarkable archive of 1,904 testaments to determine patterns in giving to the Virgin of Loreto shrine in the late fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries. Bianca M. Lopez argues that in central Italy, as elsewhere, the cult of the Virgin Mary gained new prominence at this time of unprecedented mortality. Individuals gave to Santa Maria di Loreto, which houses the structure in which Mary is believed to have lived, as an expression of their grief in the hope of strengthening family lineages beyond death and to care for loved ones believed to be languishing in purgatory. Lopez establishes statistical correlations between different social groups and their donations to Loreto over time, uncovering informative new historical patterns such as the prominence of widow and migrant donors in the notarial record. The testaments also provide a social history of Recanati, revealing how its denizens venerated Mary as a saint with unrivaled spiritual power and uniquely sympathetic to grief, having lost her own son, Jesus. In the fourteenth century, plague survivors transformed their anguish into Marian devotion. The devastation of the plague brought the Virgin out of noble courts and monasteries and onto city streets. As Queen of Sorrows details, however, the popularity and growing wealth of Loreto's Marian shrine attracted the attention of the papacy and peninsular seigneurial lords, who eventually brought Santa Maria di Loreto under the control of the Church.
Images of Plague and Pestilence
Title | Images of Plague and Pestilence PDF eBook |
Author | Christine M. Boeckl |
Publisher | Penn State Press |
Pages | 333 |
Release | 2000-12-01 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 1935503456 |
Since the late fourteenth century, European artists created an extensive body of images, in paintings, prints, drawings, sculptures, and other media, about the horrors of disease and death, as well as hope and salvation. This interdisciplinary study on disease in metaphysical context is the first general overview of plague art written from an art-historical standpoint. The book selects masterpieces created by Raphael, Titian, Tintoretto, Rubens, Van Dyck, and Poussin, and includes minor works dating from the fourteenth to twentieth centuries. It highlights the most important innovative artistic works that originated during the Renaissance and the Catholic Reformation. This study of the changing iconographic patterns and their iconological interpretations opens a window to the past.
The Plague Checkt, Or, Piety Will Either Prevent Or Alter the Property of the Plague
Title | The Plague Checkt, Or, Piety Will Either Prevent Or Alter the Property of the Plague PDF eBook |
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Pages | 71 |
Release | 1665 |
Genre | Plague |
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Piety and Charity in Late Medieval Florence
Title | Piety and Charity in Late Medieval Florence PDF eBook |
Author | John Henderson |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 568 |
Release | 1997-05-15 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0226326888 |
Examines the complex relationships between religion, society and charity in private and public life in Florence - Development of confraternities.