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Record Nr.

UNINA9910815584103321

Autore

Cossar Roisin

Titolo

The Transformation of the Laity in Bergamo, 1265-c.1400 / / Roisin Cossar

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden; ; Boston : , : BRILL, , 2006

ISBN

1-281-39970-1

9786611399702

90-474-1008-4

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (248 p.)

Collana

The Medieval Mediterranean ; ; 63

Disciplina

282/.452409022

Soggetti

Laity - Italy - Bergamo (Province) - Catholic Church - History

Lay ministry - Italy - Bergamo - Catholic Church - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.