Florence And Its Church In The Age Of Dante (Middle Ages Series)
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: November 15, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 374
ISBN-13: 9780812238235
Subjects: European history: c 500 to c 1500; History of religion; History: World; Europe - Italy; History; Religion - Church History; Italy; Christianity - History - General; Medieval; Church history; 476-1400; Florence (Italy)
First sentence: On July 3, 1292, in the open-air loggia of Orsanmichele in central Florence, where grain merchants sold their grain to feed a growing population, a series of curative miracles occurred that contemporaries believed were associated with an image of the Virgin Mary.
Description: "Addressing such issues as systems of patronage and jurisdictional rights, George Dameron portrays the working of the rural and urban church in all of its complexity. Florence and Its Church in the Age of Dante fills a major gap in scholarship and will be of particular interest to medievalists, church historians, and Italianists."--BOOK JACKET.