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Lay Confraternities and Civic Religion in Renaissance Bologna

By Nicholas Terpstra

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
1996
ISBN
0521480922, 9780521480925, 0521522617, 9780521522618, 9780511523502
LCC
BX808.5.I8 T47 1995
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
9 MB (9357598 bytes)
Series
Cambridge Studies in Italian History and Culture
Pages
272\270
Topic
History
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

The Renaissance is still often wrongly characterized as a period of religious indifference. Contradicting that viewpoint, this book examines confraternities: lay groups through which Italians of the Renaissance expressed their individual and collective religious beliefs. Intensely local and dominated by artisans and craftsmen, the confraternities shaped the civic religious cult through various activities such as charitable work, public shrines, and processions. This book puts these religious activities into the turbulent social and political context of Renaissance Bologna.

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