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Start by marking Saints and Cities in Medieval Italy as Want to Read: Want to Read savin. ant to Read. This collection of writings about Saints was written in Italy in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. Here translated into English and in full for the first time, they shed light on the ways in which both lay men and women sought God in the urban environment, and how they were understood and described by contemporaries. The book will be welcomed by students and other r This collection of writings about Saints was written in Italy in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries.

Published July 24, 2007 by Manchester University Press.

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Manchester Medieval Sources. The saints' Lives in this book were written in Italy in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries

Manchester Medieval Sources. Translated by Diana Webb. The saints' Lives in this book were written in Italy in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. The book will welcomed by students and other readers interested in medieval Italian cities during this period of growth and vitality, and in how the religious life was lived in urban settings. Format Paperback 272 pages.

Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for Saints and Cities in Medieval Italy by. .This book offers full translations of the Lives of seven saints (five men and two women) who lived in Italian cities between about 1150 and 1315.

This book offers full translations of the Lives of seven saints (five men and two women) who lived in Italian cities between about 1150 and 1315. It will interest both students and other readers curious about medieval Italian history and about medieval popular religion and sainthood. Manchester University Press.

Only 1 left in stock (more on the way). Before I read this book, I had never thought much about looking to medieval saints stories as a way of learning about medieval society; in my mind, sacred and secular were kept separate, however these things were more closely wedded in medieval culture. As this book points out, Medieval tellings of saints' stories often include elements from the writer's daily life (role of women, care of children, relationships within a community).

Magazine article History Today. Saints and Cities in Medieval Italy. None of this was uniquely applicable to Italy. Contributors: Webb, Diana. Subjects: Italy-History. Magazine article History Today. Of the thousands of saints who were venerated in medieval Europe, some were extremely localised and some virtually universal in their appeal. The Virgin Mary, the Baptist, the Apostles all received church dedications throughout Europe and their major feast-days were observed everywhere.

Saints and Cities in Medieval Italy (Manchester Medieval Sources)'. Bill Buckets (Hedgehogs)'. What has the author Diana Barton Webb written? Diana Barton Webb has written: 'Women of God whom the men left out of the Bible' - subject(s): Apocryphal books (Old Testament), Criticism, interpretation, Women in the Bible.

Diana Webb, Saints and Cities in Medieval Italy (Manchester University Press, 2007)

Diana Webb, Saints and Cities in Medieval Italy (Manchester University Press, 2007). Manchester Medieval Sources.

Every commune had to have one - Diana Webb explains how the cult of a holy man or woman and civic PR went hand-in-hand in medieval Italy. Diana Webb Published in History Today Volume 43 Issue 7 July 1993. Around the year 1550 an Italian humanist succinctly explained he concept of the patron saint: We can see that by a great gift of Heaven it has come about that every city has been divinely allotted some saint as guardian and protector. Rightly it awards him honour and worship at all times, but it has especial recourse to him as protector and defender in uncertain or dangerous circumstances.