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.

Product details

• Authors: Nicholas Terpstra, Nicholas (University of Regina Terpstra
• 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
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History