David D'Andrea

author of Civic Christianity in Renaissance Italy: The Hospital of Treviso, 1400-1530

November 4, 2015

David D'Andrea is an associate professor and director of graduate studies in the History department at Oklahoma State University. He has written numerous scholarly articles and reviews, focusing on his areas of research: religious and institutional change in early modern Europe, lay confraternities in Renaissance Italy, Venice in the 15th and 16th centuries, and the Mediterranean world.

He is currently writing another book, Mediating the Miraculous: Local Religion, the Virgin Mary and the Renaissance Venetian World. D'Andrea is in several professional scholarly organizations, including the Society for Italian Historical Studies and the Renaissance Society of America.

Civic Christianity surveys the activities of a powerful religious brotherhood and documents the interconnected local, regional, and international factors that fashioned the social world of Venetian subjects. Grounded in previously unexplored archival material, the book is an innovative study of the nexus between local religion and Venetian territorial power, providing scholars with this first scholarly monograph of the city that served as the keystone of Venice's mainland empire. This original approach to the critical relationship between provincial powers and the central government also contributes to other important areas of historical inquiry, including the history of popular religion, poor relief, medicine, and education.

URL: https://library.okstate.edu/news/celebratingbooks/2009-honorees/david-dandrea

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