Bianchi of 1399 in Central Italy

Alexandra R.A. Lee, Ph.D. (2017), University College London, teaches at that university. She has published articles on religious confraternities and the Bianchi of 1399.

• AcknowledgementsList of Figures, Maps and TablesList of AbbreviationsTranscription, Translation and Digitized ManuscriptsIntroduction1 Nomenclature2 Popular Religion and Civic Religion3 Popular Religious Revivals4 Book Outline1 Politics and Plague1 Politics2 Plague3 The Moria dei Bianchi2 Origin Stories1 The Tre Pani Story1.1 Protagonists1.1.1 The Witness1.1.2 Christ1.1.3 The Virgin1.2 Narrative Variation1.3 Images2 The Book Story3 Capperledis’ Tale4 Location of Origins3 Continuing Momentum1 Origin Story Recapitulations2 The Madonna Dell’oliva3 Melica4 Visions at Cigoli5 Smaller Scale Visions4 Regulations for a Revival1 Realising the Regulations: Wearing White1.1 Adornments2 Bianchi Practices5 Lay Religious Practices1 Singing and Praying1.1 Stabat Mater: The Bianchi “Theme Tune”1.2 Misericordia Etterno Iddio and Misericordia Virgine Pia1.3 Vernacular Bianchi Laude1.4 Latin Bianchi Laude1.5 Praying1.6 How to Sing During the Bianchi Devotions2 Self-flagellation2.1 Tuscany2.2 Umbria2.3 The Symbolic Use of Self-Flagellation6 Civic Religion and Religious Spaces1 Civic Religion2 Religious Confraternities3 Pilgrimage and Processions4 Processional Order5 Processional Routes6 Preaching and the Role of the Church7 Civic Religion and Communal Support1 Crossing Thresholds2 Leaders3 Provisions4 Peacemaking5 Images and Objects of Peacemaking6 Prisons7 The Bianchi and Civic Religion8 Legacy1 Rome: The End of the Devotions?2 Jubilee 14003 Commemoration in Tuscany: Crucifixes and Confraternities4 Commemoration in Umbria and LazioConclusionAppendix: Bianchi Laude IncipitsBibliographyIndex of Subjects