Queen of Sorrows: Plague, Piety, and Power in Late Medieval Italy - Hardcoverby Bianca M. Lopez (Author) Queen of Sorrows takes an original approach to both late medieval Italian history and the history of Christianity, using quantitative and qualitative analyses of a remarkable archive of 1,904 testaments to determine patterns in giving to the Virgin of Loreto shrine in the late fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries. Bianca M. Lopez argues that in central Italy, as elsewhere, the cult of the Virgin Mary gained new