ES 07 Late Medieval and Early Modern Ritual Cohn: Studies in Italian Urban Culture Tapa dura - 2013

Turnhout Brepols 2012. Hardback, approx. X+443 p., 50 b/w ill., 156 x 234 mm. ISBN 9782503541907. This collection of fifteen studies brings together scholars of late medieval, Renaissance, and early modern Italy to reflect on the multifaceted world of ritual. The scope is expansive, covering four centuries, and the length and breadth of the Italian peninsula. Because of older presumptions about the modernity of the Renaissance and hence its supposed aversion to the irrational, scholarship on ritual life in Italian city-states of the Renaissance has lagged behind the historiography on symbols and rituals in monarchies north of the Alps. Only by the 1990s had a wide range of scholars across disciplines become interested in these subjects and approaches for the late medieval and early modern Italian city-state; yet no synthesis or comparative work on rituals and symbols has peered across the regional enclaves of Italy. Through original research in libraries and archives across the Italian peninsula,… Leer más

Brepols Publishers, 2013. 1st. hardcover. New. 104x17x150.

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