Peace and Penance in Late Medieval Italy by Katherine Ludwig Jansen
By Katherine Ludwig Jansen
Medieval Italian communes are recognized for his or her violence, feuds, and vendettas, but underneath this tumult used to be a society preoccupied with peace. Peace and Penance in past due Medieval Italy is the 1st booklet to envision how civic peacemaking within the age of Dante was once cast within the crucible of penitential spiritual practice.
Focusing on Florence within the 13th and fourteenth centuries, an period identified for violence and civil discord, Katherine Ludwig Jansen brilliantly illuminates how spiritual and political leaders used peace agreements for every little thing from bringing an finish to local quarrels to restoring complete citizenship to judicial exiles. She brings to gentle a treasure trove of unpublished facts from notarial data and helps it with sermons, hagiography, political treatises, and chronicle money owed. She paints a bright photo of existence in an Italian commune, a socially and politically risky global that strove to accomplish peace. Jansen additionally assembles a wealth of visible fabric from the interval, illustrating for the 1st time how the kiss of peace—a ritual gesture borrowed from the Catholic Mass—was included into the payment of secular disputes.
Breaking new flooring within the examine of peacemaking within the center a long time, Peace and Penance in overdue Medieval Italy provides a wholly new size to our realizing of Italian tradition during this turbulent age through exhibiting how peace used to be conceived, memorialized, and infrequently achieved.
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