Cities of God: The Religion of the Italian Communes, 1125-1325 by Augustine Thompson
English | 3 Nov. 2005 | ISBN: 0271024771 | 517 Pages | PDF | 2 MB
English | 3 Nov. 2005 | ISBN: 0271024771 | 517 Pages | PDF | 2 MB
We 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."