Sally Brasher: 2 books
Women of the Humiliati
A Moral Response to Medieval Civic Life
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2004
This book examines the contribution of women to the Humiliati movement, providing original archival evidence indicating that women dominated the group's membership. These findings have implications for both women's spirituality and women's work, correcting the received opinion that the patriarchal...
Hospitals and charity
Religious culture and civic life in medieval northern Italy
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017
This is the first book in English to provide a comprehensive examination of the hospital movement that arose and prospered in northern Italy between the twelfth and fifteenth centuries. Throughout this flourishing urbanised area hundreds of independent semi-religious facilities appeared, offering...