Companion to Late Medieval and Early Modern Siena

Santa Casciani, Ph.D. (1994, University of Wisconsin, Madison), is Professor of Italian at John Carroll University and founding director of the Bishop Anthony M. Pilla Program, and a Rome program. She has published widely on Michelangelo, Dante, Italian and Italian- American literature, and pedagogy.Heather Richardson Hayton, Ph.D. (2000, Pennsylvania State University), is an award-winning professor of English and director of the Honors Program at Guilford College. She has published on medieval desire, monstrosity, and various topics in pop culture. She regularly leads a study-abroad program in Siena.

• AcknowledgementsList of IllustrationsAbbreviationsNotes on ContributorsIntroductionHeather HaytonPart 1: The City and Commune1 Siena: the City and its State Throughout TimeMario Ascheri2 The Significance of MontapertiBradley R. Franco3 “Per queste cose ognuno sta in santa pace et in concordia”: Understanding Urban Space in Renaissance SienaFabrizio Nevola4 Saint Catherine and SienaJane TylusPart 2: Art and Religion5 “Beata quella città della sua patria!”. Siena’s Religious Culture and Carthusian MonasticismDemetrio S. Yocum6 The Marian Altarpieces of Pietro and Ambrogio LorenzettiSheri F. Shaneyfelt7 The Discussion and Transmission of Reformed Religious Beliefs in Early-Modern SienaAndrea Beth Wenz8 Bernardino of Siena in the History and Culture of the City of L’AquilaSanta CascianiPart 3: Culture and Society9 Public Health and Hospitals in Medieval Siena before the Black DeathAnna M. Peterson10 “Sebben che siamo donne …”: Sienese Women in the Troubled Years at the End of the Republic (c.1500–60)Elena Brizio11 “Sotto un Lauro in corona”: Literate Women in 16th-Century SienaKonrad Eisenbichler12 “An Occasion to Banish Melancholy”: Musical Culture in Early Modern SienaColleen ReardonEpilogue: The Foundations of Contemporary SienaThe “Gothic Queen”: the Myth of Siena in the 19th and 20th CenturiesSaverio Luigi BattenteIllustrationsBibliographyIndex

"Der von Santa Casciani und Heather Richardson Hayton herausgegebene Band versammelt damit durchweg hochqualitative, oft auch innovative Arbeiten zur sienesischen Stadtgeschichte. [...] Der Sammelband leistet einen wichtigen Beitrag, um städtisches Leben in Italien in Mittelalter und Früher Neuzeit auch einem breiteren Publikum ohne Italienisch-Kenntnisse zugänglich zu machen, was ihn auch für die universitäre Lehre zu einem Gewinn macht". Read the full review here