The Bianchi of 1399 in Central Italy: Making Devotion Local

by Alexandra R.A. Lee

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004465987
• ISBN13: 9789004465985
• Release Date: July 2021
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 300 Pages