Lay Confraternities and Civic Religion in Renaissance Bologna |
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Author:
| Terpstra, Nicholas |
Series title: | Cambridge Studies in Italian History and Culture Ser. |
ISBN: | 978-0-521-48092-5 |
Publication Date: | Nov 1995 |
Publisher: | Cambridge University Press
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Book Format: | Hardback |
List Price: | USD $139.00 |
Book Description:
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This 1995 book examines the confraternities, lay groups through which Italians of the Renaissance expressed their individual and collective religious beliefs. Intensely local and predominantly artisanal, the confraternities shaped the civic religious cult through charitable activities, public shrines and processions.
This 1995 book examines the confraternities, lay groups through which Italians of the Renaissance expressed their individual and collective religious beliefs. Intensely local and predominantly artisanal, the confraternities shaped the civic religious cult through charitable activities, public shrines and processions.