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Lay Confraternities and Civic Religion in Renaissance Bologna - Cambridge Studies in Italian History and Culture Terpstra, Nicholas (University of Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada)
Lay Confraternities and Civic Religion in Renaissance Bologna - Cambridge Studies in Italian History and Culture
Terpstra, Nicholas (University of Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada)
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.
272 pages, 2 b/w illus.
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | August 8, 2002 |
| ISBN13 | 9780521522618 |
| Publishers | Cambridge University Press |
| Pages | 272 |
| Dimensions | 152 × 229 × 15 mm · 400 g |
| Language | English |
| Series Editor | Fragnito, Gigliola |
| Series Editor | Mozzarelli, Cesare |
| Series Editor | Oresko, Robert |
| Series Editor | Symcox, Geoffrey |