Lee, Alexandra R. A.. 2021. The Bianchi of 1399 in Central Italy: Making Devotion Local. Leiden: Brill. ISBN 9789004465985 [Book]

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Providing new insights into the Bianchi devotions, a medieval popular religious revival which responded to an outbreak of plague at the turn of the fifteenth century, this book takes a comparative, local and regional approach to the Bianchi, challenging traditional presentations of the movement as homogeneous whole.
Combining a rich collection of textual, visual, and material sources, the study focuses on the two Tuscan towns of Lucca and Pistoia. Alexandra R.A. Lee demonstrates how the Bianchi processions in central Italy were moulded by secular and ecclesiastical authorities and shaped by local traditions as they attempted to prevent an epidemic.

Item Type:	Book
Keywords:	plague; medieval; Bianchi of 1399
Departments, Centres and Research Units:	History
Date:	15 July 2021
Item ID:	32142
Date Deposited:	13 Sep 2022 12:44
Last Modified:	13 Sep 2022 12:44
URI:	https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/32142

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