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Lay Confraternities and Civic Religion in Renaissance Bologna

Lay Confraternities and Civic Religion in Renaissance Bologna

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  • Date Published: August 2002
  • availability: Available
  • format: Paperback
  • isbn: 9780521522618

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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.

    • The first study in English of Renaissance Bologna since the 1930s
    • Illustrates the effects of gender, class and religion in early modern society
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    "Nicholas Terpstra has written an excellent book, one that has been carefully crafted and researched to discover and analyze the interwoven strands of religion and society." James R. Banker, Journal of Modern History

    "...significantly advances our understanding of the devotional and political context of premodern Italian cities, in this case Bologna....provides a new and revealing insight into the multiple patterns of spirituality, devotion, charity, and politics to be found in the Italian Renaissance....makes an invaluable contribution for its topic, its scholarship, and its city of interest." Canadian Journal of History

    "Terpstra has done an impressive job of tracing the charitable and religious activities of the confraternities in the light of Bologna's continually changing political landscape." Timothy Fehler, Journal of Church and State

    "The book reviewed here is a fine example of a wide-ranging and methodologically sophisticated inquiry into the nature and history of confraternities in an important Italian City....certain to interest students of society, religion, and poltics,,,.Terpstra skilfully guides the reader through the intricaies of confraternal forms of worship, ritual, organization, internal administration, finances and sources of wealth. The book's strength is its thorough grounding in primary sources....This book is a remarkable achievement. Impressively well informed about primary and secondary sources, learned, subtle, and thoughful, it weaves institutional, religious, and political history into a whole. It lets evidence speak without overwhelming the reader with tangential details....this is a work which opens fresh dimensions for all those in quest of understanding sixteenth-century Italy." Elisabeth Gleason, Sixteenth Century Journal

    "Nicholas Terpstra's study of civic religion in Renaissance Bologna is a significant contribution to the growing body of literature on lay confraternities...." Daniel Bornstein, Speculum

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    • Date Published: August 2002
    • format: Paperback
    • isbn: 9780521522618
    • length: 272 pages
    • dimensions: 229 x 152 x 15 mm
    • weight: 0.4kg
    • contains: 2 b/w illus.
    • availability: Available
  • Table of Contents

    Introduction
    Prologue
    1. The early quattrocento
    2. Lay spirituality and confraternal worship
    3. The mechanics of worship
    4. Communal identity, administration and finances
    5. Confraternal charity and the civic cult in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries
    Epilogue
    Bibliography.

  • Author

    Nicholas Terpstra, University of Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada

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