[PDF.71ba] Cities of God: The Religion of the Italian Communes, 1125–1325

Cities of God: The Religion of the Italian Communes, 1125–1325

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 | #1303848 in Books |  2006-01-23 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.00 x1.38 x6.00l,1.81 | File type: PDF | 520 pages

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||8 of 8 people found the following review helpful.| Wonderful|By D. Miller|Thompson's work is a great study of medieval Italian communes which revises previous assumptions about their poltical and religious character. Rather than early democracies which separated religious practices from local government, Thompson argues persuasively that civic and religious concerns were completely interwoven. The book provides a well researche| ||“Using a wealth of evidence drawn from civic and ecclesiastical statues, tithe lists, saints’ lives, art, and architecture, Thompson reminds us that the urban environment was densely packed with expressions of orthodox religion. . . . This book is

We know much about the Italian city states—the “communes”—of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. But historians have focused on their political accomplishments to the exclusion of their religious life, going so far as to call them “purely secular contrivances.” When religion is considered, the subjects are usually saints, heretics, theologians, and religious leaders, thereby ignoring the vast majority of those who lived in the com...

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