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Churchmen and Urban Government in Late Medieval Italy, c.1200–c.1450
Cases and Contexts

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Frances Andrews, Edward Coleman, Caterina Bruschi, Christoph Friedrich Weber, Pierpaolo Bonaci, Maria Agata Pincelli, Maria Teresa Brolis, Andrea Beneggi, Giovanna Casagrande, Eleonora Rava, Dennis Romano, Paolo Grillo, William R. Day, Jr, Cécile Caby, Stefan Visnjevac, Hubert Houben, Andrea Puglia, Martin Heale
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  • Date Published: November 2013
  • availability: Available
  • format: Hardback
  • isbn: 9781107044265

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  • Why, when so driven by the impetus for autonomy, did the city elites of thirteenth-century Italy turn to men bound to religious orders whose purpose and reach stretched far beyond the boundaries of their often disputed territories? Churchmen and Urban Government in Late Medieval Italy, c.1200–c.1450 brings together a team of international contributors to provide the first comparative response to this pivotal question. Presenting a series of urban cases and contexts, the book explores the secular-religious boundaries of the period and evaluates the role of the clergy in the administration and government of Italy's city-states. With an extensive introduction and epilogue, it exposes for consideration the beginnings of the phenomenon, the varying responses of churchmen, the reasons why practices changed and how politics and religious identity relate to each other. This important new study has significant implications for our understanding of power, negotiation, bureaucracy and religious identity.

    • The first comprehensive study of the employment of men of religion, including penitents, monks, and other viri religiosi in late medieval Italy
    • A broad-ranging comparative history including case studies across thirteen different Italian city-states and regions
    • Includes studies of the phenomenon of employment beyond the cloister from the perspective of individual religious orders
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    • Date Published: November 2013
    • format: Hardback
    • isbn: 9781107044265
    • length: 426 pages
    • dimensions: 235 x 157 x 32 mm
    • weight: 0.76kg
    • contains: 10 b/w illus. 2 maps
    • availability: Available
  • Table of Contents

    1. Introduction Frances Andrews
    2. Bishop and commune in twelfth-century Cremona: the interface of secular and ecclesiastical power Edward Coleman
    Part I. Urban Case Studies:
    3. Ut inde melius fiat: the commune of Parma and its religious personnel Frances Andrews
    4. The employment of religious orders in Piacenza between the thirteenth and the fourteenth century Caterina Bruschi
    5. Cremona: a case study Christoph Friedrich Weber
    6. Employment of religious in the administration of the Modena commune from the twelfth to the fifteenth century Pierpaolo Bonacini
    7. Verona: a model case in the study of relationships between members of religious orders and the government of the city Maria Agata Pincelli
    8. The tasks assigned to the Humiliati by the commune of Bergamo (twelfth–fourteenth centuries) Maria Teresa Brolis and Andrea Beneggi
    9. Religious and public life: Lucca, a case study Ignazio del Punta
    10. Pistoia: a case study Sarah Tiboni
    11. Religious in the service of the commune: the case of thirteenth- and fourteenth-century Perugia Giovanna Casagrande
    12. On the trail of religious in the medieval communes of Viterbo and Tuscia Eleonora Rava
    13. Venetian exceptionalism? Lay and religious in Venetian communal governance Dennis Romano
    Part II. Ecclesiastial Perspectives:
    14. Cistercians as administrators in the thirteenth-century Italian communes Paolo Grillo
    15. The Cistercian monk and the casting counter William R. Day, Jr
    16. Hermits for communes: the Camaldolese in the service of the communes of central and northern Italy in the thirteenth to fifteenth centuries Cécile Caby
    17. Cooperative intervention: sermons supporting the governing authority in fifteenth-century Italy Stefan Visnjevac
    Part III. Comparisons beyond Central and Northern Italy:
    18. Religious in secular offices in late medieval southern Italy Hubert Houben
    19. Interactions between lay and ecclesiastical offices in Sardinia Andrea Puglia
    20. The abbot and public life in late medieval England Martin Heale
    21. Epilogue Frances Andrews.

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    Frances Andrews, University of St Andrews, Scotland
    Professor Frances Andrews has taught Mediaeval History at the University of St Andrews since 1995. In 2007 she founded the St Andrews Institute for Mediaeval Studies.

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    Agata Pincelli

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    Frances Andrews, Edward Coleman, Caterina Bruschi, Christoph Friedrich Weber, Pierpaolo Bonaci, Maria Agata Pincelli, Maria Teresa Brolis, Andrea Beneggi, Giovanna Casagrande, Eleonora Rava, Dennis Romano, Paolo Grillo, William R. Day, Jr, Cécile Caby, Stefan Visnjevac, Hubert Houben, Andrea Puglia, Martin Heale

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