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Italian Confraternities in the Sixteenth Century (Hardcover, New)
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Italian Confraternities in the Sixteenth Century (Hardcover, New)
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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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