RT Book
T1 Lay confraternities and civic religion in Renaissance Bologna
T2 Cambridge studies in Italian history and culture
A1 Terpstra, Nicholas 1956-
LA English
PP Cambridge
PB Cambridge University Press
YR 1995
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/883369001
AB 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.
AB 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
NO Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
CN BX808.5.I8
SN 9780511523502
K1 Confraternities : Italy : Bologna : History, 16th century.
K1 Confraternities : Italy : Bologna : History : 16th century
K1 Confraternities ; Italy ; Bologna ; History ; 16th century
K1 Bologna (Italy) ; Church history ; 16th century
K1 Italy ; Church history ; 16th century
K1 Bologna (Italy) : Church history, 16th century.
K1 Italy : Church history, 16th century.
K1 Italy : Church history : 16th century
K1 Bologna (Italy) : Church history : 16th century
DO 10.1017/CBO9780511523502