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Lay Confraternities and Civic Religion in Renaissance Bologna

Lay Confraternities and Civic Religion in Renaissance Bologna - Cambridge Studies in Italian History and Culture

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Publisher's Synopsis

This 1995 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.

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Book information

ISBN: 9780521480925
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Pub date:
DEWEY: 267.1824541
DEWEY edition: 20
Language: English
Number of pages: 251
Weight: 533g
Height: 229mm
Width: 152mm
Spine width: 19mm