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portada Queen of Sorrows: Plague, Piety, and Power in Late Medieval Italy
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Hardcover
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9781501775918
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Queen of Sorrows: Plague, Piety, and Power in Late Medieval Italy

Bianca M. Lopez (Author) · Cornell University Press · Hardcover

Queen of Sorrows: Plague, Piety, and Power in Late Medieval Italy - Lopez, Bianca M.

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Synopsis "Queen of Sorrows: Plague, Piety, and Power in Late Medieval Italy"

Queen of Sorrows takes an original approach to both late-medieval Italian history and the history of Christianity, using both quantitative and qualitative analyses of a remarkable archive of 1,904 testaments to determine patterns in giving to the Virgin of Loreto shrine in the late fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries. Bianca M. Lopez argues that in central Italy, as elsewhere, the cult of the Virgin Mary gained new prominence at this time of unprecedented mortality. Individuals gave to Santa Maria di Loreto, which houses the structure in which Mary is believed to have lived, as an expression of their grief in the hope of strengthening family lineages beyond death and to care for loved ones believed to be languishing in purgatory.Lopez establishes statistical correlations between different social groups and their donations to Loreto over time, uncovering informative new historical patterns such as the prominence of widow and migrant donors in the notarial record. The testaments also provide a social history of Recanati, revealing how its denizens venerated Mary as a saint with unrivaled spiritual power and uniquely sympathetic to grief, having lost her own son, Jesus. In the fourteenth century, plague survivors transformed their anguish into Marian devotion. The devastation of the plague brought the Virgin out of noble courts and monasteries and onto city streets. As Queen of Sorrows details, however, the popularity and growing wealth of Loreto's Marian shrine attracted the attention of the papacy and peninsular seigneurial lords, who eventually brought Santa Maria di Loreto under the control of the Church.

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