The works of mercy in Italian medieval art (c.1050-c.1400)
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Word Count
63,500 words, Guess
Page Count
254 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL44599523M
- ISBN-139782503536231
- ISBN-102503536239
- OCLC Control Number808802740
Classifications
- DDC704.948209450902
- LCCN8180 .B683 2011
Description
This is the first monograph on the medieval Italian representations of the corporal and spiritual Works of Mercy, the fourteen basic categories of almsdeeds conceived by the scholastics. This is a genuinely interdisciplinary study: Federico Botana has painstakingly dissected frescoes, panel paintings, miniatures, and sculptures of the Works of Mercy to shed new light on fundamental aspects of medieval society. These depictions reveal how communities took care of their needy, in some instances beyond what can be gleaned in written sources. Most of all, they contribute to our understanding of medieval confraternal piety. For Church reformers and the Mendicant Orders, the "works of mercy" served to rally Christians against heresy.
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Series Statement
- Medieval church studies -- volume 20
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