Lay Confraternities and Civic Religion in Renaissance Bologna
(Part of the Cambridge Studies in Italian History and Culture Series)
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The Renaissance is still often wrongly characterized as a period of religious indifference. Contradicting that viewpoint, this book examines confraternities: lay groups through which Italians of the Renaissance expressed their individual and collective religious beliefs. Intensely local and dominated by artisans and craftsmen, the confraternities shaped the civic religious cult through various activities such as charitable work, public shrines, and processions. This book puts these religious activities into the turbulent social and political context of Renaissance Bologna.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0521522617
ISBN13:9780521522618
Release Date:August 2002
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Length:272 Pages
Weight:0.89 lbs.
Dimensions:0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"
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