David S. Peterson
Washington and Lee University (Lexington, VA 24450-2116)
FB-53390-07
Fellowships for College Teachers and Independent Scholars
Research Programs
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Totals:
$40,000 (approved)
$40,000 (awarded)
Grant period:
7/1/2007 – 6/30/2008
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Power and the Sacred in Renaissance Florence, 1375-1460
An NEH Fellowship will enable me to complete my two-volume book manuscript on religion and the church in Florentine politics, 1375-1460. Volume I demonstrates how the Florentine government extended controls over the church and lay religious life over the course of the papal schism (1378-1417). Volume II shows how the church reasserted its control of the sacred and its role as a legitimizing agency in fifteenth-century Florentine social and political life. The study adds a religious component to the predominantly secular historiography of Renaissance Florence, and thus a new view of the context of Florence’s artistic Renaissance and of the understudied Italian church in the century before the Reformation.
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