The Bianchi of 1399 in Central Italy : Making Devotion Local.

Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Figures, Maps and Tables -- Abbreviations -- Transcription, Translation and Digitized Manuscripts -- Introduction -- 1 Nomenclature -- 2 Popular Religion and Civic Religion -- 3 Popular Religious Revivals -- 4 Book Outline -- Chapter 1 Politics and Plague -- 1 Politics -- 2 Plague -- 3 The Moria dei Bianchi -- Chapter 2 Origin Stories -- 1 The Tre Pani Story -- 1.1 Protagonists -- 1.1.1 The Witness -- 1.1.2 Christ -- 1.1.3 The Virgin -- 1.2 Narrative Variation -- 1.3 Images -- 2 The Book Story -- 3 Capperledis' Tale -- 4 Location of Origins -- Chapter 3 Continuing Momentum -- 1 Origin Story Recapitulations -- 2 The Madonna dell'Oliva -- 3 Melica -- 4 Visions at Cigoli -- 5 Smaller Scale Visions -- Chapter 4 Regulations for a Revival -- 1 Realising the Regulations: Wearing White -- 1.1 Adornments -- 2 Bianchi Practices -- Chapter 5 Lay Religious Practices -- 1 Singing and Praying -- 1.1 Stabat Mater: The Bianchi "Theme Tune" -- 1.2 Misericordia Etterno Iddio and Misericordia Virgine Pia -- 1.3 Vernacular Bianchi Laude -- 1.4 Latin Bianchi Laude -- 1.5 Praying -- 1.6 How to Sing During the Bianchi Devotions -- 2 Self-flagellation -- 2.1 Tuscany -- 2.2 Umbria -- 2.3 The Symbolic Use of Self-flagellation -- Chapter 6 Civic Religion and Religious Spaces -- 1 Civic Religion -- 2 Religious Confraternities -- 3 Pilgrimage and Processions -- 4 Processional Order -- 5 Processional Routes -- 6 Preaching and the Role of the Church -- Chapter 7 Civic Religion and Communal Support -- 1 Crossing Thresholds -- 2 Leaders -- 3 Provisions -- 4 Peacemaking -- 5 Images and Objects of Peacemaking -- 6 Prisons -- 7 The Bianchi and Civic Religion -- Chapter 8 Legacy -- 1 Rome: The End of the Devotions? -- 2 Jubilee 1400.

3 Commemoration in Tuscany: Crucifixes and Confraternities -- 4 Commemoration in Umbria and Lazio -- Conclusion -- Appendix Bianchi Laude Incipits -- Bibliography -- Archival and Manuscript Sources -- Published Primary Sources -- Secondary Sources -- Index of Subjects.

Offering new insight into a medieval popular religious revival, this book highlights how the Bianchi movement adapted to local norms and traditions during an epidemic of plague in two Tuscan towns at the turn of the fifteenth century.

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