Lay Confraternities and Civic Religion in Renaissance Bologna

Zusammenfassung This 1995 book examines the confraternities! lay groups through which Italians of the Renaissance expressed their individual and collective religious beliefs. Intensely local and predominantly artisanal! the confraternities shaped the civic religious cult through charitable activities! public shrines and processions. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; Prologue; 1. The early quattrocento; 2. Lay spirituality and confraternal worship; 3. The mechanics of worship; 4. Communal identity, administration and finances; 5. Confraternal charity and the civic cult in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries; Epilogue; Bibliography.

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• Authors: Nicholas Terpstra, Nicholas (University of Regina Terpstra, Terpstra Nicholas
• Assisted by: Gigliola Fragnito (Editor), Cesare Mozzarelli (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 08.08.2002
• EAN: 9780521522618
• ISBN: 978-0-521-52261-8
• No. of pages: 272
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Italian H; Cambridge Studies in Italian History and Culture
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; European History, RELIGION / Christianity / General, HISTORY / Europe / Italy, Italy, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Christianity, CE period up to c 1500, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, c 1000 CE to c 1500, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, Early history: c 500 to c 1450/1500, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599, European history: medieval period, middle ages, HISTORY / Europe / Medieval, C 1700 To C 1800