Lay Confraternities and Civic Religion in Renaissance Bologna

by Nicholas Terpstra

Book Overview

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...

• 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"