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Death and Ritual in Renaissance Florence

Book information

Publisher
The Johns Hopkins University Press
Year
1992
ISBN
0801843642, 9780801843648
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
20 MB (20657007 bytes)
Series
The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science
Pages
336\344
Time added
2024-10-30 14:15:42

Description

In what ways did the rituals associated with death in Renaissance Florence serve as an indicator of how Florentine society saw itself? In Death and Ritual in Renaissance Florence Sharon Strocchia shows how these death rites--especially civic funerals--reflected Florence's quick rise to commercial wealth in the fourteenth century and steady progression toward displays of princely power in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.

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