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"Architecture and Pilgrimage, 1000?500 "
Although there is an obvious association between pilgrimage and place, relatively little research has centred directly on the role of architecture. Architecture and Pilgrimage, 1000-1500: Southern Europe and Beyond synthesizes the work of a distinguished international group of scholars. It takes a broad view of architecture, to include cities, routes, ritual topographies and human interaction with the natural environment, as well as specific buildings and shrines, and considers how these were perceived, represented and remembered. The essays explore both the ways in which the physical embodiment of pilgrimage cultures is shared, and what we can learn from the differences. The chosen period r...
The Origin, Development, and Refinement of Medieval Religious Mendicancies
The purpose and intention of this handbook is to offer an analysis of the term mendicancy and to present an up-to-date and comprehensive introduction to the phenomenon of religious mendicancy in the central and later middle ages. It provides a contextualized guide that will introduce the central issues in contemporary scholarship regarding the mendicant orders. This project approaches the controversies from a multitude of angles and unites in one volume the insights of different disciplines such as social and intellectual history, literary analysis, and theology.
Florence's English Cemetery, 1827-1877
This book is a reflection of the author’s research and restoration of the formerly abandoned Victorian Swiss-owned so-called English Cemetery in Florence. It presents a control group of burials, documented in marble and on paper, of foreign non-Catholics (English, Swiss, American, Russian, Scandinavian, etc.), between 1827-1877 in one Florentine piazza, giving their stories. The book documents the burials of writers, artists, abolitionists, slaves, serfs, and servants who lie alongside industrialists, noblemen and royalty, death being a democracy. Some notable burials covered in the book include Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Frances Trollope, Walter Savage Landor, Arthur Hugh Clough, Thomas ...
New Saints in Late-Mediaeval Venice, 1200–1500
This book focuses on the comparatively unknown cults of new saints in late-mediaeval Venice. These new saints were near-contemporary citizens who were venerated by their compatriots without official sanction from the papacy. In doing so, the book uncovers a sub-culture of religious expression that has been overlooked in previous scholarship. The study highlights a myriad of hagiographical materials, both visual and textual, created to honour these new saints by members of four different Venetian communities: The Republican government; the monastic orders, mostly Benedictine; the mendicant orders; and local parishes. By scrutinising the hagiographic portraits described in painted vita panels,...
