Late medieval and early modern ritual : studies in Italian urban culture / edited by Samuel Cohn, Jr., Marcello Fantoni, Franco Franceschi, Fabrizio Ricciardelli.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cohn, Samuel Kline, Jr., editor.

Fantoni, Marcello, editor.

Franceschi, Franco, editor.

Ricciardelli, Fabrizio, editor.

William E. Lingelbach Fund.

Series:

Europa sacra ; volume 7.

Europa sacra ; volume 7

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ritual--Italy--History.

Ritual.

Rites and ceremonies--Italy--History.

Rites and ceremonies.

City-states--Italy--History.

City-states.

Renaissance--Italy.

Renaissance.

History.

Italy.

Physical Description:

viii, 364 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Turnhout : Brepols, [2013]

Summary:

Europa Sacra, This series is concerned with the relationship between religion, society, culture, and identity in Europe from the early medieval period to the end of the ancien régime, with particular emphasis on continuity and transformation within urban religious life and institutions. The series concentrates on medieval Europe, though may also include North Africa and the Middle East, with a particular emphasis on studies that focus on history in the longue durée. 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, these essays analyze the richness and importance of ritual at the heart of the Renaissance and Counter-Reformation states, the importance of oaths, ritual space, the power of images, processions, curses, guild ceremonies, saints, and more. The wide geographic and disciplinary range of these essays provides a new platform for viewing the significance of ritual and symbolic power in Renaissance and early modern Italy. Book jacket.

Contents:

Part I Consensus and Social Identity

Between Rules and Ritual: The Election of the Signoria in Florence in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries / Ilaria Taddei Taddei, Ilaria 43

The Rituals of the Guilds: Examples from Tuscan Cities (Thirteenth to Sixteenth Centuries) / Franco Franceschi Franceschi, Franco 65

The Rhetoric of Power in Renaissance Florence / Fabrizio Ricciardelli Ricciardelli, Fabrizio 93

Peace and Revolt: Oath-Taking Rituals in Early Sixteenth-Century Italy / Carlo Taviani Taviani, Carlo 119

Part II Family and Gender

Family Rituals in Northern Italy (Fifteenth to Seventeenth Centuries) / Guido Alfani Alfani, Guido 139

The First Female Nudes of the Quattrocento / Christians Klapisch-Zuber Klapisch-Zuber, Christians 161

Part III Death and Violence

Honour and Insult: Military Rituals in Late Medieval Tuscany / William Caferro Caferro, William 183

Philip Us Royal Exequies in Two Italian Cities: His Deeds and Virtues as Seen in Florence and Naples / John A. Marino Marino, John A. 211

Rituals of Youthful Violence in Late Medieval Italian Urban Societies / Andrea Zorzi Zorzi, Andrea 235

Part IV Civic and Power Rituals

Papal Sovereignty and Civic Rituals in the Early Modern Age / Maria Antonietta Visceglia Visceglia, Maria Antonietta 269

Ritual Form and Urban Space in Early Modern Rome / Genevieve Warwick Warwick, Genevieve 297

Symbol of Venice: The Doge in Ritual / Andrew Hopkins Hopkins, Andrew 329

The Pope as Conqueror: Rites of Possession, Episodes, and Unexpected Events in 1598 Ferrara / Giovanni Ricci Ricci, Giovanni 349.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the William E. Lingelbach Fund.

ISBN:

2503541909

9782503541907

9782503542027

2503542026

OCLC:

841673434

Publisher Number:

99955504659