The Bianchi of 1399 in Central Italy: Making Devotion Local

Half Title
Series Information
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Acknowledgements
Figures, Maps and Tables
Abbreviations
Transcription, Translation and Digitized Manuscripts
Introduction
	1 Nomenclature
	2 Popular Religion and Civic Religion
	3 Popular Religious Revivals
	4 Book Outline
Chapter 1 Politics and Plague
	1 Politics
	2 Plague
	3 The Moria dei Bianchi
Chapter 2 Origin Stories
	1 The Tre Pani Story
		1.1 Protagonists
			1.1.1 The Witness
			1.1.2 Christ
			1.1.3 The Virgin
		1.2 Narrative Variation
		1.3 Images
	2 The Book Story
	3 Capperledis’ Tale
	4 Location of Origins
Chapter 3 Continuing Momentum
	1 Origin Story Recapitulations
	2 The Madonna dell’Oliva
	3 Melica
	4 Visions at Cigoli
	5 Smaller Scale Visions
Chapter 4 Regulations for a Revival
	1 Realising the Regulations: Wearing White
		1.1 Adornments
	2 Bianchi Practices
Chapter 5 Lay Religious Practices
	1 Singing and Praying
		1.1 Stabat Mater: The Bianchi “Theme Tune”
		1.2 Misericordia Etterno Iddio and Misericordia Virgine Pia
		1.3 Vernacular Bianchi Laude
		1.4 Latin Bianchi Laude
		1.5 Praying
		1.6 How to Sing During the Bianchi Devotions
	2 Self-flagellation
		2.1 Tuscany
		2.2 Umbria
		2.3 The Symbolic Use of Self-flagellation
Chapter 6 Civic Religion and Religious Spaces
	1 Civic Religion
	2 Religious Confraternities
	3 Pilgrimage and Processions
	4 Processional Order
	5 Processional Routes
	6 Preaching and the Role of the Church
Chapter 7 Civic Religion and Communal Support
	1 Crossing Thresholds
	2 Leaders
	3 Provisions
	4 Peacemaking
	5 Images and Objects of Peacemaking
	6 Prisons
	7 The Bianchi and Civic Religion
Chapter 8 Legacy
	1 Rome: The End of the Devotions?
	2 Jubilee 1400
	3 Commemoration in Tuscany: Crucifixes and Confraternities
	4 Commemoration in Umbria and Lazio
Conclusion
Appendix  Bianchi Laude Incipits
Bibliography
	Archival and Manuscript Sources
	Published Primary Sources
	Secondary Sources
Index of Subjects