Lay Confraternities And Civic Religion In Renaissance Bologna - 9780521522618

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.

• | By (Author): Nicholas (University of Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada) Terpstra
• | Series: Cambridge Studies in Italian History and Culture
• | Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• | Publication Date: Aug 08, 2002
• | Country of Publication: United Kingdom
• | Number of Pages: 272 pages
• | Language: Not available
• | Binding: Paperback|Softback
• | ISBN-10: 0007233485
• | ISBN-13: 9780521522618