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Lay Confraternities and Civic Religion in Renaissance Bologna

by Nicholas Terpstra

  • Paperback
  • 272 pages
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • 15.3 x 22.9 x 1.6 cm

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For scholars interested in Renaissance religious practices

Reveals how confraternities shaped civic religious life

You will gain insight into historical social structures

This book explores the impact of lay confraternities on civic religion in Renaissance Bologna.

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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

    15.3 x 22.9 x 1.6 cm

  • ISBN

    9780521522618

  • ISBN-10

    0521522617

  • Eden Code

    1192221

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