Piety and Charity in Late Medieval Florence
Author:   John Henderson
Publisher:   The University of Chicago Press
Edition:   New edition
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9780226326887


Pages:   552
Publication Date:   15 May 1997
Format:   Paperback
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Author:   John Henderson
Publisher:   The University of Chicago Press
Imprint:   University of Chicago Press
Edition:   New edition
Dimensions:   Width: 1.50cm , Height: 0.30cm , Length: 2.20cm
Weight:   0.737kg
ISBN:  

9780226326887


ISBN 10:   0226326888
Pages:   552
Publication Date:   15 May 1997
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand   Availability explained
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List of Plates List of Figures List of Tables List of Abbreviations Introduction 1: Fraternity and Fraternities in Medieval Italy 2: The Confraternities of Late Medieval Florence: An Overview 3: The Laudesi Companies 4: Penitence and Penitents 5: Death, Funerals, and Bequests 6: Piety and Charity: Orsanmichele and a Public Cult 7: Charity and the Poor before the Black Death 8: Charity, the Poor, and the Aftermath of the Black Death, 1348-1400 9: Charity in Fifteenth-Century Florence 10: The Secular and the Sacred Appendix: Confraternities Meeting in Florence, 1240-1499 Bibliography Index

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John Henderson is Reader in Latin Literature, University of Cambridge and Fellow of King's College, Cambridge. He is co-author (with Mary Beard) of Classics: A very short introduction (Oxford, 1995) and is the author of many books, including Figuring Out Roman Nobility: Juvenal's Eighth Satire (1997) and A Roman Life: Rutilius Gallicus on Paper and In Stone (1998), both published by University of Exeter Press.

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