A Companion to Late Medieval and Early Modern Siena (Brill's Companions to European History)

Casciani, Santa (EDT)/ Richardson Hayton, Heather (EDT)

Brill（2021/01発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 370 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9789004389991
• DDC分類 945.581

Full Description

A Companion to Late Medieval and Early Modern Siena presents chapters by prominent scholars on the powerful commune that birthed a pope, sheltered saints, built banking institutions that have thrived for nearly 1000 years, and nurtured vibrant communities of artists and intellectuals. This multi-disciplinary book, edited by Santa Casciani and Heather Richardson Hayton, redresses scholarly imbalances of the past by introducing early period Siena to a wider audience. Focusing mostly on the 12th to 16th centuries, each chapter explores how the Sienese crafted a distinctive civic identity that remains intact still. Modern readers will find Siena's responses to plague, political factionalism, and aggression from powerful neighbours particularly relevant.

Contributors are: Mario Ascheri, Saverio Luigi Battente, Elena Brizio, Santa Casciani, Konrad Eisenbichler, Bradley Franco, Fabrizio Nevola, Anna Peterson, Colleen Reardon, Sheri Shaneyfelt, Jane Tylus, Andrea Beth Wenz, Demetrio Yocum.

Contents

Acknowledgements

List of Illustrations

Abbreviations

Notes on Contributors

Introduction

 Heather Hayton

Part 1: The City and Commune

1 Siena: the City and its State Throughout Time

 Mario Ascheri

2 The Significance of Montaperti

 Bradley R. Franco

3 "Per queste cose ognuno sta in santa pace et in concordia": Understanding Urban Space in Renaissance Siena

 Fabrizio Nevola

4 Saint Catherine and Siena

 Jane Tylus

Part 2: Art and Religion

5 "Beata quella città della sua patria!". Siena's Religious Culture and Carthusian Monasticism

 Demetrio S. Yocum

6 The Marian Altarpieces of Pietro and Ambrogio Lorenzetti

 Sheri F. Shaneyfelt

7 The Discussion and Transmission of Reformed Religious Beliefs in Early-Modern Siena

 Andrea Beth Wenz

8 Bernardino of Siena in the History and Culture of the City of L'Aquila

 Santa Casciani

Part 3: Culture and Society

9 Public Health and Hospitals in Medieval Siena before the Black Death

 Anna M. Peterson

10 "Sebben che siamo donne ...": Sienese Women in the Troubled Years at the End of the Republic (c.1500-60)

 Elena Brizio

11 "Sotto un Lauro in corona": Literate Women in 16th-Century Siena

 Konrad Eisenbichler

12 "An Occasion to Banish Melancholy": Musical Culture in Early Modern Siena

 Colleen Reardon

Epilogue: The Foundations of Contemporary Siena

The "Gothic Queen": the Myth of Siena in the 19th and 20th Centuries

 Saverio Luigi Battente

Illustrations

Bibliography

Index