The Transformation of the Laity in Bergamo, 1265-C.1400

Erscheinungsjahr 2006
ISBN: 978-90-04-15222-9
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 63, 232 Seiten, Gewicht: 589 g

Reihe: The Medieval Mediterranean

This book examines the tension between social mores and religious activities among the laity in the Italian diocese of Bergamo during the later Middle Ages (1265-c.1400). Comparing the religious activities of lay men and women, both rich and poor, across a range of pious and ecclesiastical institutions, including confraternities, hospitals, parishes and the diocese, Roisin Cossar shows how the laity’s access to these institutions increasingly came to depend on their gender and social status during the fourteenth century. At the same time, she argues that all lay people, regardless of gender and social status, viewed themselves as equal members of a lay ordo. The book thus illuminates the complexity of late medieval religious culture, as it simultaneously reflected and challenged secular social values.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cossar, Roisin

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
Currency, Names, and Translations
Abbreviations
Introduction
PART ONE
CONFRATERNITIES AND HOSPITALS
Chapter One: Religious Solidarity and Civic Power:Confraternities in Bergamo
Chapter Two: She Offers Herself and Her Belongings:Hospitals in Bergamo
PART TWO
CHARITY AND CHURCH
Chapter Three: Alms for the Poor! Confraternal Charity and the Poor
Chapter Four: You Do and Say Evil! Lay Men, Women, and the Clergy
PART THREE
WRITTEN RELIGION
Chapter Five: Testaments, Gender, and Religious Culture
Conclusion
Works Cited
Primary Sources
Secondary Sources
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Roisin Cossar, Ph.D. (1999) in History, University of Toronto, is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Manitoba. She has previously published articles on confraternities, gender and religious culture in medieval Bergamo.