{"product_id":"the-cult-of-remembrance-and-samuel-k-cohn-9780801856068","title":"The Cult of Remembrance and the Black Death: Six Renaissance Cities in Central Italy","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA comparative study of six Italian city-states--Arezzo, Florence, Perugia, Assisi, Pisa, and Siena--shows the rise of a new Renaissance cult of remembrance.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSelected by \u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e Magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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 practice of dividing bequests into small sums, combining them instead into last gifts to enhance their \"fame and glory\" and that of their lineages. Illustrative of the new mentality, religious art patronage spread to new social classes, touching even peasants, who sought to be represented \"in their very likeness\" at the feet of their patron saints. From the supposed center of Renaissance culture--Florence--to the citadel of Franciscan devotion--Assisi--this change in sentiment spurred new levels of demand for monumental burials, testamentary commissions for art, and other efforts to exert control over the living from the grave.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn his award-winning study, \u003ci\u003eDeath and Property in Siena\u003c\/i\u003e, historian Samuel K. Cohn, Jr., used close analysis of last wills to chart transformations in mentalities over a six-hundred-year history. In \u003ci\u003eThe Cult of Remembrance and the Black Death\u003c\/i\u003e, he applies the same methods to compare six Italian city-states--Arezzo, Florence, Perugia, Assisi, Pisa, and Siena--showing the rise of a new Renaissance cult of remembrance. But this new cult was not Burckhardt's Renaissance \"individualism\" \u003ci\u003etout court\u003c\/i\u003e. Instead, the new piety grew in tandem with reverence for the ancestors and a strong sense of family identity that flowed down male blood lines.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Samuel K. Cohn\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 080185606X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780801856068\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Johns Hopkins University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/15\/1997\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 448\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.41lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.91h x 5.94w x 1.08d","brand":"Samuel K. Cohn","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44059737489663,"sku":"9780801856068","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_4ac74751-cb09-467f-8120-736a98fa8d2f.jpg?v=1685060032","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-cult-of-remembrance-and-samuel-k-cohn-9780801856068","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}