Description for 20070131
Paperback. This book offers full translations of the Lives of seven saints (five men and two women) who lived in Italian cities between about 1150 and 1315. It will interest both students and other readers curious about medieval Italian history and about medieval popular religion and sainthood. Translator(s): Webb, Diana. Series Editor(s): Horrox, Rosemary; MacLean, Simon. Series: Manchester Medieval Sources. Num Pages: 272 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DST; HBJD; HBLC; HRAX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 138 x 21. Weight in Grams: 354.
The saints’ Lives in this book were written in Italy in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. Here translated into English and in full for the first time, they shed light on the ways in which both lay men and women sought God in the urban environment, and how they were understood and described by contemporaries.
Only one of these saints (Homobonus of Cremona) was formally canonised by the Pope: the others were locally venerated within the communities which had nurtured them. Raimondo Palmario of Piacenza, contemporary with Homobonus, was remembered as both pilgrim and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Saints and Cities in Medieval Italy United Kingdom
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Series
Manchester Medieval Sources
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780719072932
SKU
V9780719072932
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Ref
99-15
About Paperback
Diana Webb was until recently Senior Lecturer in History at Kings College London -- .
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