Lay Confraternities and Civic Religion in Renaissance Bologna

By:

Nicholas Terpstra

Format:

Hardback

Series:

Cambridge Studies in Italian History and Culture

Show Hide Adult Content

$312.99

Available from supplier

Usually ships in 3-4 weeks

0 in Trolley

Price Match

Wrap this item as a gift ($5.90) - add a free gift card on the next page

Buy Now, Pay Later with:

4 payments of $78.25 with Afterpay Learn more

Availability

Delivering to:

Estimated arrival:

Around 8-18 July using International Courier

Description

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.

Release date Australia

November 30th, 1995

Author

Nicholas Terpstra

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Illustrations

2 Halftones, unspecified

Pages

272

Series

Cambridge Studies in Italian History and Culture

Dimensions

152x229x19

ISBN-13

9780521480925

Product ID

2160037

Customer reviews

Nobody has reviewed this product yet. You could be the first!

Write a Review

Marketplace listings

There are no Marketplace listings available for this product currently.
Already own it? Create a free listing and pay just 9% commission when it sells!

Sell Yours Here