A companion to late medieval and early modern Siena / / edited by Santa Casciani, Heather Richardson Hayton.

• Superior document: Brill's companions to European history, ; Volume 24
• TeilnehmendeR: Casciani, Santa,; Hayton, Heather, 1969-
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, The Netherlands ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: Brill's companions to European history ; Volume 24.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 356 pages) :; illustrations.

"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 mul...

Table of Contents

• Siena: the city and its state throughout time / Mario Ascheri
• The significance of Montaperti / Bradley R. Franco
• "Per queste cose ognuno sta in santa pace et in concordia": understanding urban space in Renaissance Siena / Fabrizio Nevola
• Saint Catherine and Siena / Jane Tylus
• "Beata quella città della sua patria!". Siena's religious culture and Carthusian monasticism / Demetrio S. Yocum
• The Marian altarpieces of Pietro and Ambrogio Lorenzetti / Sheri F. Shaneyfelt
• The discussion and transmission of reformed religious beliefs in early-modern Siena / Andrea Beth Wenz
• Bernardino of Siena in the history and culture of the city of L'Aquila / Santa Casciani
• Public health and hospitals in medieval Siena before the Black Death / Anna M. Peterson
• "Sebben che siamo donne ...": Sienese women in the troubled years at the end of the Republic (c.1500-60) / Elena Brizio
• "Sotto un Lauro in corona": literate women in 16th-century Siena / Konrad Eisenbichler
• "An occasion to banish melancholy": musical culture in early modern Siena / Colleen Reardon
• The "Gothic Queen": the myth of Siena in the 19th and 20th centuries / Saverio Luigi Battente.