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Author Petkov, Kiril, 1964-

Title The anxieties of a citizen class : the miracles of the true cross of San Giovanni Evangelista, Venice 1370-1480 / by Kiril Petkov
Published Leiden : Brill, 2014

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Description 1 online resource
Series The medieval mediterranean ; v. 99
Medieval Mediterranean ; v. 99.
Contents Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter One Setting the Stage: The Privilege of the Donation of the Cross; Chapter Two Upward Bound: The Vendramin and the Miracle of the True Cross at the Bridge of San Lorenzo; Chapter Three Relics, Business, and Nature: The Miracle with Andrea Vendramin's Oil Ships; Chapter Four Church, State, and Sainthood: Francesco Querini and the Miracle with the Demoniac; Chapter Five Drawing a Line Between Citizen Classes: Regimenting the popolani in the Miracle at the Bridge of San Lio
Chapter Six Healing the Sick, Helping the Poor: Service and Identity in the Miracle of the Daughter of Nicolo di BenvegnudoChapter Seven The Miracle of Paolo Rabia: The Rise and Fall of Entrepreneurial Leadership; Chapter Eight The Merchant of Brescia: Incorporating the terraferma in the Miracle of the Son of Giacomo de Salis; Chapter Nine The Body Feverish and the Body Politic: Medicine, Politics, and Religion in the Healing of Piero de Lodovico; Chapter Ten Maritime Empire, Mobility, and Cross-Cultural Identity: The Miracle of Antonio Rizzo
Chapter Eleven The Miracle of Alvise Finetti's Boy: Finance, the State, and the Future of the cittadini originariiConclusion Method, at Last; Appendix Incunabulum 249bis (ex. 222), Museo Civico Correr, Venice, ca. 1490; Bibliography; Index
Summary In The Anxieties of a Citizen Class Kiril Petkov reveals the uses of religious symbolism and miracle metaphors for the expression and alleviation of the social anxieties accompanying the formation of the cittadini originarii, the upper-middle class of fifteenth-century Venice
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Scuola grande di San Giovanni Evangelista (Venice, Italy) -- History
SUBJECT Scuola grande di San Giovanni Evangelista (Venice, Italy) fast
Subject Miracles -- Italy -- Venice -- History
Holy Cross -- Legends.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
Holy Cross
Miracles
SUBJECT Venice (Italy) -- Church history
Subject Italy -- Venice
Genre/Form Church history
History
Legends
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9789004259812
9004259813
1306405238
9781306405232