Diana Webb
Biographic Data
| ID | 5686925 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Diana Webb |
| GIVEN NAMES | Diana |
| FAMILY NAME | Webb |
| SIGNATURE | WEBB D |
| AFFILIATIONS | King's College London |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 17 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Art and Architecture of Late Medieval Pilgrimage in Northern Europe and the British Isles . Sarah Blick , Rita Tekippe
Raimondo and the Magdalen
The life of Raimondo 'Palmario' of Piacenza (d. 1200) has been preserved in a seventeenth century Latin retranslation of an Italian translation of the original written by Master Rufino in 1212. There seems little reason, however, to doubt its authenticity. It contains brief descriptions of two long-distance pilgrimages undertaken by the saint, to the Holy Land as a very young man, and in the 1170s to Compostela and Provence. In Provence he is sai…
Shorter notice. Scrivere di santi
Journal Article Shorter notice. Scrivere di santi: Atti del II Convegno di studio dell' Associazione Italiana per lo studio della dantita, dei culti e dell' agiografia, Napoli, 22-25 Ottobre 1997. G Luongo [ed] Get access D Webb D Webb King's College London, London, UK Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume 115, Issue 462, June 2000, Pages 676–677, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr…
St James in Tuscany
Pilgrimage is universally recognised by historians as a principal feature of medieval popular religion, if by ‘popular’ we mean something in which the ordinary laity fully participated. While we can be confident of the fact of this participation, accurate measures of its scale are less easy to come by, while putting names to the thousands of humble participants is less easy still. Narrative sources, such as chronicles and hagiographies, tend to d…
Patrons and Defenders
The cult of the saints played a vital role in the political life of Italian city states in the Middle Ages. The saints were a unifying force for a city, and brought prestige and power to its rulers, therefore the cult of the saints was bound up with the civic agenda, and worship was politically charged. Laymen – able men of affairs, orthodox and “kirchentreu”, increasingly assumed responsibility for ensuring that “celestial guarantees” were obtai…
Friends of the Family
At some time in the 1320s, the Sienese master Simone Martini painted an altar-piece celebrating the Hermit friar Agostino Novello. Agostino, who had died at the convent of San Leonardo al Lago, near Siena, in 1309, is shown surrounded by illustrations of four of his posthumous miracles (see plates 1 and 2, pp. 198 and 200, below). Of these, three were performed on behalf of children. The exception, at upper right, shows the deliverance of a knigh…
Woman and Home
‘From the earliest days of Christianity, the domestic community has served as a unit of worship’. In the later medieval period, the home certainly played an important part in the religious observances of many laypeople. By the fifteenth century in England, chapels in private houses were increasingly common, even if they were simply small rooms adapted for the purpose. The practice of informal prayer and private devotional reading did not require …
A Saint and his Money
In the year 1033, the Bishop of the city of Arezzo in Tuscany awarded to the hermits of Camaldoli all the tithes of buying and selling by citizens of Arezzo, urban and suburban, and by all merchants and dealers in the diocese. In so doing he gave classic expression to the hierarchy’s view of money-making. ‘I wish you to know what a great sin it is not to give God tithes of the profits of your business dealings, which you can rarely or never condu…
The Possibility of Toleration
In the course of his lengthy arguments in the Defensor Pacis against the right of the priesthood to exercise coercive jurisdiction over men in this life, Marsiglio of Padua deals with the problem of the persecution of heresy, pausing in one place to remark: By these considerations, however, we do not wish to say that it is inappropriate that heretics or those who are otherwise infidel be coerced, but that the authority for this, if it be lawful t…
Cities of God
To believe that a political community might justly go to war in defence of its legitimate interests was a necessity of daily life to the city states of northern and central Italy from the twelfth century onwards. This belief as such was of course hardly confined to them among medieval European societies, but there are certain features of the Italian experience of war which, taken with the character of the cities themselves, contributed significan…
Italians and others
In his excellent study of medieval Italian society, Hyde makes a thought-provoking comparison of ‘the Italians of the age of Dante’ with the humanists of a later generation. The former he sees as distinguished by ‘a sense of continuity with the past and with other parts of the Catholic world’ from the humanists who ‘concentrated on what was close at hand, digging deep rather than spreading wide, so that their world revolved around central Italy.’…
Rhetor, Poeta, Historian
Rhetor, Poeta, Historian: Studien über rhetorische Erkenntnis und Lebensanschauung im italienischen Renaissancehumanismus. By Jan Lindhardt. (Acta Theologica Danica, xiii.) Pp. 200. Leiden: Brill, 1979. Gld. 60. - Volume 33 Issue 1
The Truth about Constantine
In about 1380 the choir of the Franciscan church of Florence, Santa Croce, was decorated by Agnolo Gaddi with scenes illustrating the legend of the Holy Cross. The emperor Constantine does not appear in these frescoes, although it was understood that it was his conversion that had moved his mother Helena to undertake her archaeological expedition to the Holy Land to discover the whereabouts of the Cross. It is, nevertheless, his unseen presence t…
Eloquence and Education
We have learnt long since that the pioneers of humanism in early Renaissance Italy are not to be regarded as atheists, pagans, or even non-conformists. Some might be cynical about the institutional and political Church with which as Italians, and not infrequently as ecclesiastical employees, they were all too familiar, but they were not looking to disturb the Church in its role as one of the pillars of established society. If as intellectuals the…
Penitence and Peace-Making in City and Contado
A major trend in the recent historiography of medieval and renaissance Italy has been towards the reassertion of the fundamental importance of the countryside and of agriculture. This is not so much to deny the unique position occupied by the cities in Italian life as to remind us of some essential features of those cities and of the men who ruled them. Towns were more typically market centres for their localities than entrepôts of long-distance …
The Decline and Fall of Eastern Christianity
Journal Article The Decline and Fall of Eastern Christianity: a Fifteenth-century View Get access DIANA M. WEBB DIANA M. WEBB Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research, Volume 49, Issue 120, November 1976, Pages 198–216, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2281.1976.tb01685.x Published: 12 October 2007
Andrea Biglia at Bologna, 1424-7
Journal Article Andrea Biglia at Bologna, 1424–7: a Humanist Friar and the Troubles of the Church Get access Diana M. Webb Diana M. Webb Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research, Volume 49, Issue 119, May 1976, Pages 41–59, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2281.1976.tb01671.x Published: 12 October 2007
Woman and Home
‘From the earliest days of Christianity, the domestic community has served as a unit of worship’. In the later medieval period, the home certainly played an important part in the religious observances of many laypeople. By the fifteenth century in England, chapels in private houses were increasingly common, even if they were simply small rooms adapted for the purpose. The practice of informal prayer and private devotional reading did not require …
St James in Tuscany
Pilgrimage is universally recognised by historians as a principal feature of medieval popular religion, if by ‘popular’ we mean something in which the ordinary laity fully participated. While we can be confident of the fact of this participation, accurate measures of its scale are less easy to come by, while putting names to the thousands of humble participants is less easy still. Narrative sources, such as chronicles and hagiographies, tend to d…
Eloquence and Education
We have learnt long since that the pioneers of humanism in early Renaissance Italy are not to be regarded as atheists, pagans, or even non-conformists. Some might be cynical about the institutional and political Church with which as Italians, and not infrequently as ecclesiastical employees, they were all too familiar, but they were not looking to disturb the Church in its role as one of the pillars of established society. If as intellectuals the…
The Decline and Fall of Eastern Christianity
Journal Article The Decline and Fall of Eastern Christianity: a Fifteenth-century View Get access DIANA M. WEBB DIANA M. WEBB Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research, Volume 49, Issue 120, November 1976, Pages 198–216, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2281.1976.tb01685.x Published: 12 October 2007
Andrea Biglia at Bologna, 1424-7
Journal Article Andrea Biglia at Bologna, 1424–7: a Humanist Friar and the Troubles of the Church Get access Diana M. Webb Diana M. Webb Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research, Volume 49, Issue 119, May 1976, Pages 41–59, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2281.1976.tb01671.x Published: 12 October 2007
Penitence and Peace-Making in City and Contado
A major trend in the recent historiography of medieval and renaissance Italy has been towards the reassertion of the fundamental importance of the countryside and of agriculture. This is not so much to deny the unique position occupied by the cities in Italian life as to remind us of some essential features of those cities and of the men who ruled them. Towns were more typically market centres for their localities than entrepôts of long-distance …
Eloquence and Education
We have learnt long since that the pioneers of humanism in early Renaissance Italy are not to be regarded as atheists, pagans, or even non-conformists. Some might be cynical about the institutional and political Church with which as Italians, and not infrequently as ecclesiastical employees, they were all too familiar, but they were not looking to disturb the Church in its role as one of the pillars of established society. If as intellectuals the…
The Truth about Constantine
In about 1380 the choir of the Franciscan church of Florence, Santa Croce, was decorated by Agnolo Gaddi with scenes illustrating the legend of the Holy Cross. The emperor Constantine does not appear in these frescoes, although it was understood that it was his conversion that had moved his mother Helena to undertake her archaeological expedition to the Holy Land to discover the whereabouts of the Cross. It is, nevertheless, his unseen presence t…
Italians and others
In his excellent study of medieval Italian society, Hyde makes a thought-provoking comparison of ‘the Italians of the age of Dante’ with the humanists of a later generation. The former he sees as distinguished by ‘a sense of continuity with the past and with other parts of the Catholic world’ from the humanists who ‘concentrated on what was close at hand, digging deep rather than spreading wide, so that their world revolved around central Italy.’…
Rhetor, Poeta, Historian
Rhetor, Poeta, Historian: Studien über rhetorische Erkenntnis und Lebensanschauung im italienischen Renaissancehumanismus. By Jan Lindhardt. (Acta Theologica Danica, xiii.) Pp. 200. Leiden: Brill, 1979. Gld. 60. - Volume 33 Issue 1
Cities of God
To believe that a political community might justly go to war in defence of its legitimate interests was a necessity of daily life to the city states of northern and central Italy from the twelfth century onwards. This belief as such was of course hardly confined to them among medieval European societies, but there are certain features of the Italian experience of war which, taken with the character of the cities themselves, contributed significan…
The Possibility of Toleration
In the course of his lengthy arguments in the Defensor Pacis against the right of the priesthood to exercise coercive jurisdiction over men in this life, Marsiglio of Padua deals with the problem of the persecution of heresy, pausing in one place to remark: By these considerations, however, we do not wish to say that it is inappropriate that heretics or those who are otherwise infidel be coerced, but that the authority for this, if it be lawful t…
A Saint and his Money
In the year 1033, the Bishop of the city of Arezzo in Tuscany awarded to the hermits of Camaldoli all the tithes of buying and selling by citizens of Arezzo, urban and suburban, and by all merchants and dealers in the diocese. In so doing he gave classic expression to the hierarchy’s view of money-making. ‘I wish you to know what a great sin it is not to give God tithes of the profits of your business dealings, which you can rarely or never condu…
Woman and Home
‘From the earliest days of Christianity, the domestic community has served as a unit of worship’. In the later medieval period, the home certainly played an important part in the religious observances of many laypeople. By the fifteenth century in England, chapels in private houses were increasingly common, even if they were simply small rooms adapted for the purpose. The practice of informal prayer and private devotional reading did not require …
Friends of the Family
At some time in the 1320s, the Sienese master Simone Martini painted an altar-piece celebrating the Hermit friar Agostino Novello. Agostino, who had died at the convent of San Leonardo al Lago, near Siena, in 1309, is shown surrounded by illustrations of four of his posthumous miracles (see plates 1 and 2, pp. 198 and 200, below). Of these, three were performed on behalf of children. The exception, at upper right, shows the deliverance of a knigh…
Patrons and Defenders
The cult of the saints played a vital role in the political life of Italian city states in the Middle Ages. The saints were a unifying force for a city, and brought prestige and power to its rulers, therefore the cult of the saints was bound up with the civic agenda, and worship was politically charged. Laymen – able men of affairs, orthodox and “kirchentreu”, increasingly assumed responsibility for ensuring that “celestial guarantees” were obtai…
St James in Tuscany
Pilgrimage is universally recognised by historians as a principal feature of medieval popular religion, if by ‘popular’ we mean something in which the ordinary laity fully participated. While we can be confident of the fact of this participation, accurate measures of its scale are less easy to come by, while putting names to the thousands of humble participants is less easy still. Narrative sources, such as chronicles and hagiographies, tend to d…
Raimondo and the Magdalen
The life of Raimondo 'Palmario' of Piacenza (d. 1200) has been preserved in a seventeenth century Latin retranslation of an Italian translation of the original written by Master Rufino in 1212. There seems little reason, however, to doubt its authenticity. It contains brief descriptions of two long-distance pilgrimages undertaken by the saint, to the Holy Land as a very young man, and in the 1170s to Compostela and Provence. In Provence he is sai…
Shorter notice. Scrivere di santi
Journal Article Shorter notice. Scrivere di santi: Atti del II Convegno di studio dell' Associazione Italiana per lo studio della dantita, dei culti e dell' agiografia, Napoli, 22-25 Ottobre 1997. G Luongo [ed] Get access D Webb D Webb King's College London, London, UK Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume 115, Issue 462, June 2000, Pages 676–677, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr…
Art and Architecture of Late Medieval Pilgrimage in Northern Europe and the British Isles . Sarah Blick , Rita Tekippe
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