Ignis probatione cognoscere: Manifestazioni del divino e riflessi politici nella Firenze dei secoli XI e XV

The paper focuses the test of fire that took place in Florence in 1068 and shows the way contemporaries saw it as a hierophany aimed at showing divine benevolence towards the reformed monasticism that fought the plague of simony and the corruption of the clergy. The text highlights the important rep...

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Main Author: Salvestrini, Francesco 1965- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:Italian
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Published: Morcelliana [2019]
In: Studi e materiali di storia delle religioni
Year: 2019, Volume: 85, Issue: 2, Pages: 472-482
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Florence / Feuerprobe / Hierophanie / Religious policy / History 1000-1500
RelBib Classification:CB Christian life; spirituality
KAE Church history 900-1300; high Middle Ages
KCA Monasticism; religious orders
Further subjects:B origins of communes
B Monachesimo
B Corruption
B Monasticism
B simonia
B MONASTICISM & religious orders
B Ordalia
B riforma ecclesiastica
B Elders (Church officers)
B Ordeal
B Eschatology
B origini del comune
B ecclesiastical reform
B Clergy
B Simony