The Elect Nation : The Savonarolan Movement in Florence, 1494-1545
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Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Oxford-Warburg Studies
ISBN-10
0199206007
ISBN-13
9780199206001
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Imprint
Clarendon Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Dec 29th, 1994
Print length
502 Pages
Weight
758 grams
Dimensions
22.40 x 14.50 x 3.20 cms
Product Classification:
European historyEarly modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700ChristianityPolitical parties
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Examines the activities of the Savonarolan party from the time of its formation during Savonarola's ascendancy, identifies its strategies for survival after the execution of Savonarola, and analyzes the party's contribution to the political and religious life of Florence.
The Elect Nation is the first comprehensive study of the religious, political and cultural movement inspired by Savonarola. Based on a thorough examination of archival material and manuscript sources, the book argues that the followers of Savonarola exercised a profound influence on every facet of Florentine life during the important period of the city''s transition from republic to principate. It is the author''s contention that their ideology and activities provide the key to understanding not only the policital developments of the last years of the Florentine Republic, but also the nature of contemporary political debate and the characteristics of the merging Medicean Principate.A major preoccupation of the book is to show how the Savonarolans as a group managed to survive the execution of their leaders and to regain their strength and influence. The author traces their networks of support and analyses the way in which they infiltrated and restructured existing Florentine institutions to their advantage. He also reveals how they exploited spiritual counselling and lay and religious partronage to expand their influence, and, in particular, how they ensured the survival of their movement by forming an anti-Medicean alliance of republican forces in Florence.
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