Book #43578

The Bianchi of 1399: Popular Devotion in Late Medieval Italy

Daniel E. Bornstein

Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Fine in Fine dust jacket
Edition: First Edition; First Printing
Publisher: Ithaca And London: Cornell University Press, 1993.
ISBN: 0801429102

Price: $50.00

Fine first Printing of a First Edition in a like dust-jacket.

In the summer of 1399 a wave of popular deavotion swept through Italy from the Alps to Rome. Dubbed Bianchi because of their white robes. Author offers new insight into the character of late medieval Christianity; 8vo; [i-xii], 1-232, [233] pages.