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Italian Confraternities in the Sixteenth Century

by Christopher F. Black

  • Hardback
  • 336 pages
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • 15.3 x 22.9 x 2.3 cm

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Confraternities were - and are - religious brotherhoods for lay people to promote their religious life in common. Though designed to prepare for the afterlife, they were fully involved in the social, political and cultural life of the community and could affect all men and women, as members or as the recipients of charity. Confraternities organised a great range of devotional, cultural and indeed artistic activities in addition to other functions such as the provision of dowries and the escort of condemned men to the scaffold. Other works have studied the local activities of specific confraternities, but this is the first to attempt a broad survey of such organisations across the breadth of early modern Italy. Christopher Black demonstrates clearly the extent, diversity and influence of confraternal behaviour, and shows how such brotherhoods adapted to the religious and social crises of the sixteenth century - thus illuminating current debates about Catholic Reform, the Counter-Reformation, poverty, philanthropy and social control.
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  • Author

    Christopher F. Black

  • Book Format

    Hardback

  • Publisher

    Cambridge University Press

  • Published

    June 1989

  • Weight

    663g

  • Page Count

    336

  • Dimensions

    15.3 x 22.9 x 2.3 cm

  • ISBN

    9780521364874

  • ISBN-10

    0521364876

  • Eden Code

    4532569

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