Publisher's Synopsis
The chapters in this book include:- 'Civic hospitals, local identity, and regional states in early modern Italy'; 'Confraternities, citizenship, and factionalism: Genoa in the early sixteenth century'; 'Preaching, brotherhoods, and Biblical literacy: the case of Pietro Bernardo of Florence'; 'Islamic brotherhoods in sixteenth-century Central Asia: the Dervish, the Sultan, and the Sufi Mirror for Princes'; and much more.
