| FB-53390-07 | Research Programs: Fellowships for College Teachers and Independent Scholars | David S. Peterson | Power and the Sacred in Renaissance Florence, 1375-1460 | 7/1/2007 - 6/30/2008 | $40,000.00 | David | S. | Peterson | | | | Washington and Lee University | Lexington | VA | 24450-2116 | USA | 2006 | Renaissance Studies | Fellowships for College Teachers and Independent Scholars | Research Programs | 40000 | 0 | 40000 | 0 |
An NEH Fellowship will enable me to complete my two-volume book manuscript on religion and the church in Florentine politics, 1375-1460. Volume I demonstrates how the Florentine government extended controls over the church and lay religious life over the course of the papal schism (1378-1417). Volume II shows how the church reasserted its control of the sacred and its role as a legitimizing agency in fifteenth-century Florentine social and political life. The study adds a religious component to the predominantly secular historiography of Renaissance Florence, and thus a new view of the context of Florence’s artistic Renaissance and of the understudied Italian church in the century before the Reformation. |