Revival Preachers and Politics in Thirteenth Century Italy
Recent studies of medieval preaching have tended to focus on sermon texts. This is the first scholarly study in English of preaching and its social context in thirteenth-century Italy. Augustine Thompson O.P., both an academic and a preacher, reconstructs the Great Devotion of 1233 and analyzes its devotional, social, political, and legal elements. He shows how the preachers of this revival crafted an image of divine authority that supported their intervention in factional disputes and facilitated their arbitration in social and political conflicts. They exploited forms from revived Roman Law and developing city statutes in order to create fl…
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- ISBN: 978-1-60899-494-6
- EAN: 9781608994946
- Produktnummer: 7883240
- Verlag: Wipf and Stock
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
- Seitenangabe: 260 S.
- Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D1.4 cm 382 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 382
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