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1 online resource (430 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; Half-title; Title; Imprints; Contents; Figures; Maps; Contributors; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Map A; 1. Introduction; Historiographical context; 2. Bishop and commune in twelfth-century Cremona: the interface of secular and ecclesiastical power; Part I Urban case studies; 3. Ut inde melius fiat: the commune of Parma and its religious personnel; 4. The employment of religious orders in Piacenza between the thirteenth and the fourteenth centuries; 5. Cremona: a case study; 6. Employment of religious in the administration of the Modena commune from the twelfth to the fifteenth century |
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IntroductionProfile of communal institutions; Communal offices; Statutes and inquisitorial activities; Concluding remarks; 7. Verona: a model case in the study of relationships between members of religious orders and the government of the city; 8. The tasks assigned to the Humiliati by the commune of Bergamo (twelfth-fourteenth centuries); Supervision of public works; Special envoys, excise men and public treasurers; The employment of the Humiliati in the judiciary and the relationship with the rural communes; Conclusions; 9. Religious and public life: Lucca, a case study; Conclusions |
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10. Pistoia: a case study; 11. Religious in the service of the commune: the case of thirteenth- and fourteenth-century Perugia; The statute of 1342 and the Penitents; The silence of the statute of 1279 and the emergence of a ̀universe of brothers ́; The treasurers (massari); Points for further consideration; 12. On the trail of religious in the medieval communes of Viterbo and Tuscia; The camerarii; Other offices; Auditors of the Liber iurium; Peacemaking; Relations between the commune and the Inquisition; Custodians of property; Conclusions |
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13. Venetian exceptionalism? Lay and religious in Venetian communal governance; Part II Ecclesiastical perspectives; 14. Cistercians as administrators in the thirteenth-century Italian communes; Monks and the cities: a deliberate relationship; Similarities and differences; The Cistercians and their administrative posts: a context; Resistance and recompense; 15. The Cistercian monk and the casting counter; 16. Hermits for communes: the Camaldolese in the service of the communes of central and northern Italy in the thirteenth to fifteenth centuries; Heremitic and urban practices |
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The Camaldolese in the communes: a documentary journey through the registers of the priors general; Virtuous exchanges: between ̀the mental and the material ́48; 17. Cooperative intervention: sermons supporting the governing authority in fifteenth-century Italy; Part III Comparisons beyond central and northern Italy; 18. Religious in secular offices in late medieval southern Italy; The reign of Frederick II (1198-1250): Cistercians in secular offices; Members of the military orders in the service of the Crown |
| Summary |
Major new study of secular-religious boundaries and the role of the clergy in the administration of Italy's late medieval city-states |
| Notes |
Religious in the service of the Angevin kings of Naples (1265-1442): the rise of the Mendicant orders |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Christianity and politics -- Italy -- History
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Christianity and politics -- Italy -- History -- Case studies
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Christianity and politics.
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Politics and government
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Italy -- Church history -- 476-1400.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85068879
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Italy -- Politics and government -- 1268-1559. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85069001
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Italy.
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Case studies.
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Church history.
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History.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Andrews, Frances, editor.
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Pincelli, Maria Agata.
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| ISBN |
9781107598805 |
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110759880X |
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