Teaching Widowed Women, Community, and Devotion in Quattrocento Florence with Lucrezia Tornabuoni and Antonia Tanini Pulci

In the Middle Ages and the early modern period, a woman's social identity changed when her husband died. She became both a symbol of his loss, and a living monument to his legacy—an ambassador between the living and the dead. Responsible not only for preserving his memory on earth, a widow was...

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Main Author: Wainwright, Anna (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: MDPI [2018]
In: Religions
Year: 2018, Volume: 9, Issue: 3, Pages: 1-13
Further subjects:B Lucrezia Tornabuoni
B Antonia Tanini Pulci
B Widowhood
B Digital humanities
B Medici family
B Quattrocento Florence
B sacre rappresentazioni
B women writers
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