| Description |
xiii, 429 pages : illustrations, maps on endpapers ; 23 cm |
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ACLS Humanities E-Book (Series)
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| Contents |
1. Introduction. The Comparative Approach. The Six City-States. The Testament. The Model from Siena. The Choice of Geography. The Localization of Culture and Its Convergence. Black Death Studies -- Pt. I. The Structure of Piety. 2. Pious Choices. Parishes and Monasteries. Nunneries. Hospitals. Hospital Foundations. Religious Confraternities. The "Poor of Christ," Dowries, and Servants. A General Assessment. 3. The Structure of Pious Bequests. A Divergence in the Structure of Piety: Siena, Pisa, and Assisi. The Second Pattern. Wealth and Piety. A Mixture of Pious Intentions. Altarpieces. The Donoratico and the Tarlati -- Pt. II. Directions from the Grave. 4. The Body. Funerals. Burial. Change over Time. 5. Property. Directions from the Grave. Women and Lineage. A General Assessment -- Pt. III. Art. 6. Art and Masses. Perpetual Masses. Chapels. Chapel Decoration. Other Construction Projects. Sacred Art. Chalices, Vestments, Altarcloths. Candlestick Holders. Painted Beds |
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Coats of Arms, Crests, and Plaques. Sculpture. Restoration and Repair. 7. Paintings. The Geography of Painting. Before the Black Death. 1348. After the Black Death. Painting in the Late Trecento and Early Quattrocento. The Price of Art. Painting after the Black Death: A Reassessment -- 8. Conclusion -- Appendix A: The Sources -- Appendix B: Catalog Numbers of the ASF, Notarile antecosimiano, Sampled for This Book -- Appendix C: A Gazetteer of Villages and Provincial Towns Mentioned in the Text |
| Summary |
In his award-winning study, Death and Property in Siena, historian Samuel K. Cohn, Jr., used close analysis of last wills to chart transformations in mentalities over a six-hundred-year history. Now, in The Cult of Remembrance and the Black Death, Cohn applies the same methodology to fashion a comparative history of six Italian city-states - Arezzo, Florence, Perugia, Assisi, Pisa, and Siena - showing the rise of a new Renaissance cult of remembrance. In 1363 the Black Death devastated central Italy for the second time, causing a detectable shift in notions of afterlife and patterns of charitable giving. Throughout Tuscany and Umbria, patricians and peasants alike abandoned the practice of dividing their bequests into small sums, combining them instead into last gifts to enhance their "fame and glory." But this new cult of remembrance, Cohn argues, does not support Burckhardt's thesis of Renaissance "individualism." Instead, the new piety grew in tandem with reverence for ancestors and a strong sense of family identity founded on the importance of male blood lines. But rather than retreat into the religious pessimism of earlier times, survivors of the plague would develop into a new generation of art patrons, albeit one with a taste for distinctively cruder and more regimented forms of religious art. From the supposed center of Renaissance culture - Florence - to the citadel of Franciscan devotion - Assisi - the widespread change of sentiment created a new demand for monumental burials, testamentary commissions for art, and other efforts to exert control over the living from beyond the grave |
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Death customs History |
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Italy |
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Death customs History |
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Italy |
| Notes |
Maps on lining papers |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 381-413) and index |
| Subject |
Art and society -- Italy -- History.
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Black Death -- Social aspects -- Italy -- History.
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Charitable bequests -- Italy -- History.
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Lifestyles -- Italy -- History.
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Renaissance -- Italy.
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Plague -- history.
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Social Conditions -- history.
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| SUBJECT |
Italy -- Social conditions -- 1268-1559. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85069020
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| Author |
American Council of Learned Societies.
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| LC no. |
91045267 |
| ISBN |
0801843030 |
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