Religion paysanne et religion urbaine en Toscane (c.1280c.1450)

The subject of this volume is that of the establishment and embedding in the Tuscan countryside, and especially round Florence, of the new forms of piety propagated above all by the Mendicant orders. The volume brings together Professor de La Roncire's major articles on this topic, both detailed research studies and syntheses. Against the background of existing religious attitudes, he aims to describe the many new forms of pastoral activity and structures that were instituted, and to provide a picture of what the religious side of their life really meant to these communities. The final articles extend this analysis to include the city of Florence itself, examining the role of the confraternities there and the religious views of its merchants, its socio-economic elite. Ce volume a pour sujet ltablissement et lenracinement de nouvelles formes de pit propages surtout par les ordres mendiants en pays toscan et, plus particulirement, aux alentours de Florence. Le volume rassemble les articles les plus importants du professeur de La Roncire sur ce sujet; la fois tudes de recherches dtailles et de synthse. Cest sur cet arrire-plan dattitudes religieuses en existence, quil tente de dcrire les nombreuses formes nouvelles dactivits et de structures pastorales qui furent instaures dans ces communauts et ce que signifiait pour elles le ct religieux de leurs vies. Les derniers articles tendent cette analyse la ville de Florence elle-mme, en y examinant le rle des confrries et le point de vue religieux de llite socio-conomique qutaient ses marchands.