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Lay Confraternities and Civic Religion in Renaissance Bologna

Lay Confraternities and Civic Religion in Renaissance Bologna

Terpstra, Nicholas

Hardcover

Series: Cambridge Studies in Italian History and Culture

PhilosophyReligion General General European History

ISBN10: 0521480922
ISBN13: 9780521480925
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Nov 30 1995
Pages: 272
Weight: 1.15
Height: 0.81 Width: 6.25 Depth: 9.30
Language: English
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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