Awarded the Howard R. Marraro Prize for Italian History by the American Catholic Historical Association. "Cohn's book is daring in scope and cunning in its way of pacing the shifting distances between body and soul in Sienese consciousness."--Times Literary Supplement. The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science.
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Awarded the Howard R. Marraro Prize for Italian History by the American Catholic Historical Association. "Cohn's book is daring in scope and cunning in its way of pacing the shifting distances between body and soul in Sienese consciousness."--Times Literary Supplement. The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. 8vo. xvii, 330pp, tables, figures, graphs, map, appendix, bibliography, index. Cloth boards in edge-worn dust-jacket which has a small puncture on the front panel. The book records, over six centuries, the thoughts of local notables, merchants, shopkeeprs, artisans and peasants as they struggle to balance the conflicting aims of protecting their property while saving their souls.
