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Siena, civil religion, and the Sienese / Gerald Parsons.
LIBRA BX1548.S5 P37 2004
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Parsons, Gerald.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint--Apparitions and miracles--Italy--Siena.
- Mary.
- Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint.
- Civil religion--Italy--Siena.
- Civil religion.
- Palio di Siena (Festival) (Siena, Italy).
- Palio di Siena (Festival).
- Siena (Italy)--Church history.
- Siena (Italy).
- Siena (Italy)--History--1355-1557.
- Italy--Siena.
- Physical Description:
- xx, 197 pages, 20 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Aldershot, Hampshire, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2004]
- Contents:
- Introduction: Siena and Civil Religion xiii
- Chapter 1 Constructing a Civil Religion: The Virgin, the 'Myth of Montaperti' and the Sienese Civic Pantheon 1260-1555 1
- Chapter 2 Under the Grand-Dukes: Civil Religion and Sienese Identity 1555-1859 32
- Chapter 3 Reinventing Tradition: The Creation of a Modern Sienese Civil Religion 1860-1915 59
- Chapter 4 Church, Palio and Contrade: Official Religion and Civil Religion in Siena in the Twentieth Century 81
- Chapter 5 Cities within the City: Civil Religion and the Contrade of Siena 108
- Chapter 6 Unity in Diversity: The Palio of Siena as Civil Religion 131.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [165]-190) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0754615162
- OCLC:
- 52203320
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