Mendicants, Humanists, and the Aesthetics of the civitas

Rhetoric, Political Debates, and Cultural Identity in 14th- and 15th-Century Italy and their Impact on Art, Architecture and Urban Space

guest-edited by Claudia Jentzsch and Katharine Stahlbuhk

Contents

Preface
Claudia Jentzsch and Katharine Stahlbuhk

"Arma praedicatorum sunt auctoritates sumptae de libris". Visual Expressions of the Mendicant-Humanist Dialectic among the Friars Preachers
Katharine Stahlbuhk

Humanistic Rhetoric and the Aesthetics of Cities in the Chapter Preaching of Mendicant Orders (Italy, Late 14th 15th Centuries)
Cécile Caby

Una reggia nel convento: gli appartamenti papali di Santa Maria Novella nel Quattrocento
Gaia Ravalli

Giovanni Caroli and the New Humanist Aesthetics
Amos Edelheit

"L'Aquila, magnifica citade": Fashioning a Center of Franciscan Observance in the Abruzzo Region
Pavla Langer

Karmeliterpredigten und -reden des 15. Jahrhunderts und ihr Einfluss auf die civitas
Ralf Lützelschwab