Lay confraternities and civic religion in Renaissance Bologna

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 civi...

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Subtitles:Lay Confraternities & Civic Religion in Renaissance Bologna
Main Author: Terpstra, Nicholas 1956- (Author)
Format: Electronic Book
Language:English
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Published: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 1995.
In:Year: 1995
Reviews:Lay confraternities and civic religion in Renaissance Bologna. By Nicholas Terpstra. (Cambridge Studies in Italian History and Culture.) Pp. xx + 251. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. £37.50. 0 521 48092 2 (1997) (Black, Christopher F.)
[Rezension von: Terpstra, Nicholas, Lay Confraternities and Civic Religion in Renaissance Bologna] (1997) (Gleason, Elisabeth)
Series/Journal:Cambridge studies in Italian history and culture
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Bologna / Brotherhood / History 1473-1583
Further subjects:B Italy Church history, 16th century
B Confraternities (Italy) (Bologna) History 16th century
B Confraternities Italy Bologna History, 16th century
B Bologna (Italy) Church history 16th century
B Italy Church history 16th century
B Bologna (Italy) ; Church history ; 16th century
B Italy ; Church history ; 16th century
B Bologna (Italy) Church history, 16th century
B Confraternities ; Italy ; Bologna ; History ; 16th century
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Print version: 9780521480925
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Summary: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.
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
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ISBN:0511523505
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511523502