Lay confraternities and civic religion in Renaissance Bologna / Nicholas Terpstra.

Main entry:

Terpstra, Nicholas.

Title & Author:

Lay confraternities and civic religion in Renaissance Bologna / Nicholas Terpstra.

Publication:

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1995.

Description:

xx, 251 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Series:

Cambridge studies in Italian history and culture

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 226-245) and index.
The early quattrocento -- Lay spirituality and confraternal worship -- The mechanics of worship -- Communal identity, administration and finances -- Confraternal charity and the civic cult in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries.

Summary:

This book analyzes the social, political, and religious roles of confraternities - the lay groups through which the Italians of the Renaissance expressed their individual and collective religious beliefs - in Bologna in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Confraternities shaped the civic religious cult through charitable activities, public shrines, and processions. This civic religious role expanded as they became politicized: 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, patricians dominated the traditional lay confraternities while artisans and merchants had few options beyond parochial confraternities which were controlled by parish priests.

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ISBN:

0521480922 (hardcover)
9780521480925 (hardcover)
0521522617
9780521522618

Subject:

Confraternities Italy Bologna History 16th century.
Confréries Italie Bologne Histoire 16e siècle.
Confraternities.
Bruderschaft
Frömmigkeit
Broederschappen.
Lekenbewegingen.
Confréries Italie Bologne (Italie) 16e siècle.
Bologna (Italy) Church history 16th century.
Italy Church history 16th century.
Bologne (Italie) Histoire religieuse 16e siècle.
Italie Histoire religieuse 16e siècle.
Italy.
Italy Bologna.
Bologna
Catholicism Related to Society History

Form/genre:

Church history.
History.

Added entries:

Cambridge studies in Italian history and culture.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 87545
Call No.: ID BX808.5.I8 T4; ID:95-B4242
Status: Available

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