Lay Confraternities and Civic Religion in Renaissance Bologna

Nicholas (University of Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada) Terpstra

Cambridge University Press, 2002

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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.

ISBN-13
9780521522618
ISBN-10
0521522617
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2002
Publication date
2002-08-08
Pages
272
Dimensions
229x152x15
Weight
400