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Lay Confraternities and Civic Religion in Renaissance Bologna

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by Nicholas Terpstra

    • Author

      Nicholas Terpstra

    • Book Format

      Paperback

    • Publisher

      Cambridge University Press

    • Published

      August 2002

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      Lay Confraternities and Civic Religion in Renaissance Bologna

      Today's Price £34.65



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      This book analyses the social, political and religious roles of the confraternities - the lay groups through which Italians of the Renaissance expressed their individual and collective religious beliefs - in Bologna in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. These confraternities shaped the civic religious cult through charitable activities, public shrines and processions. This civic religious role expanded as the confraternities became politicised: patricians used the confraternities increasingly in order to control the civic religious cult, civic charity, and the city itself. The book examines in detail how confraternities initially provided laypeople of the artisanal and merchant classes with a means of expressing a religious life separate from, but not in opposition to, the local parish or mendicant house. By the mid-sixteenth century, artisans and merchants had few options beyond parochial confraternities which were controlled by parish priests.

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      • Author

        Nicholas Terpstra

      • Book Format

        Paperback

      • Publisher

        Cambridge University Press

      • Published

        August 2002

      • Weight

        405g

      • Page Count

        272

      • Dimensions

        153 x 229 x 16 mm

      • ISBN

        9780521522618

      • ISBN-10

        0521522617

      • Eden Code

        1192221

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      • Author/Creator: Nicholas Terpstra

      • ISBN: 9780521522618

      • Publisher: Cambridge University Press

      • Release Date: August 2002

      • Weight: 405g

      • Dimensions: 153 x 229 x 16 mm

      • Eden Code: 1192221


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