Abstract:The independent citizen‐governed civic communes of medieval Italy have long been a popular focus of scholarship. However, that scholarship has tended to focus either upon the political or the religious history of the cities. A new wave of work has insisted that historians consider the birth and development of these cities from the late eleventh through the fourteenth centuries as both a political and religious phenomenon. These works have encouraged historians to see the institutional history of religion and e… Show more
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