The Cult of Remembrance and the Black Death: Six Renaissance Cities in Central Italy by Samuel K. Cohn Jr.

The Cult of Remembrance and the Black Death: Six Renaissance Cities in Central Italy

Samuel K. Cohn Jr.

448 pages • first pub 1992 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative medium-paced
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In 1363 the Black Death struck central Italy for the second time, causing a detectable shift in notions of the afterlife and patterns of charitable giving. Throughout Tuscany and Umbria, patricians and peasants alike abandoned their previous pract...

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