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Summary:

"This book traces the late medieval rise of Santa Maria di Loreto, a wealthy and powerful Marian shrine in central Italy. Devotees venerated the shrine as an emotional response to multiple plagues, leading to the site's cooptation by the papacy in the fifteenth century"-- [Provided by publisher]

Table of Contents:

• Rural Marian Shrines in late-medieval Italy
• Plague, emotions, and Marian devotion in late-medieval Recanati
• The power of notaries and public trust
• Household Marian devotion as lineage construction
• Widows and ancestral obligation
• Migrant communities at Loreto
• Consolidation of papal power after the schism.

Author/Creator:

Lopez, Bianca M, 1983- , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Queen of sorrows: plague, piety, and power in late medieval Italy [by Lopez, B.M.]

Other Related Resources:

Print version: Queen of sorrows [by Lopez, B.M.] (Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2024 — ISBN 9781501775918; LCCN 2024008939)

Related Series:

Medieval societies, religions, and cultures

Subjects:

Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint — Devotion to — Italy — Loreto

Basilica della Santa Casa di Loreto — History

Plague — Religious aspects — Christianity

Plague — Social aspects — Italy — History

Loreto, Our Lady of

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 26, 2024).

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Call Numbers:

BT660.L7 L66 2024

ISBNs:

9781501775925 (electronic book)
1501775928 (electronic book)
9781501775932 (electronic book)
1501775936 (electronic book)
9781501775918 (hardcover) [Invalid]

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2024008940

OCLC Numbers:

1427954603

Other Control Numbers:

3796901 (source: EbpS)
[Unknown Type]: ybp306613463