{"product_id":"cities-of-god-the-religion-of-the-italian-communes-1125-1325-paperback","title":"Cities of God: The Religion of the Italian Communes, 1125-1325 - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eO. P. Augustine Thompson\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWe know much about the Italian city states--the \"communes\"--of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. But historians have focused on their political accomplishments to the exclusion of their religious life, going so far as to call them \"purely secular contrivances.\" When religion is considered, the subjects are usually saints, heretics, theologians, and religious leaders, thereby ignoring the vast majority of those who lived in the communes. In \u003ci\u003eCities of God\u003c\/i\u003e, Augustine Thompson gives a voice to the forgotten majority--orthodox lay people and those who ministered to them. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThompson positions the Italian republics in sacred space and time. He maps their religious geography as it was expressed through political and voluntary associations, ecclesiastical and civil structures, common ritual life, lay saints, and miracle-working shrines. He takes the reader through the rituals and celebrations of the communal year, the people's corporate and private experience of God, and the \"liturgy\" of death and remembrance. In the process he challenges a host of stereotypes about \"orthodox\" medieval religion, the Italian city-states, and the role of new religious movements in the world of Francis of Assisi, Thomas Aquinas, and Dante. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eCities of God\u003c\/i\u003e is bold, revisionist history in the tradition of Eamon Duffy's\u003ci\u003e Stripping of the Altars\u003c\/i\u003e. Drawing on a wide repertoire of ecclesiastical and secular sources, from city statutes and chronicles to saints' lives and architecture, Thompson recaptures the religious origins and texture of the Italian republics and allows their inhabitants a spiritual voice that we have never heard before.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAugustine Thompson, O.P. is Professor of Religious Studies and History at the University of Virginia. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eRevival Preachers and Politics in Thirteenth-Century Italy\u003c\/i\u003e (1992) and, with James Gordley, \u003ci\u003eGratian: The Treatise on Laws with the Ordinary Gloss\u003c\/i\u003e (1993).\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 518\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.31 x 9.2 x 6.38 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 15, 2005\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45306592854118,"sku":"9780271029092","price":83.66,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/7255\/0758\/files\/ODdzN3lEcVFoZTZvdmwwVERtQi9sZz09.webp?v=1774086630","url":"https:\/\/infinitylightwa.com\/products\/cities-of-god-the-religion-of-the-italian-communes-1125-1325-paperback","provider":"Infinity Light","version":"1.0","type":"link"}