The Transformation of the Laity in Bergamo, 1265-c.1400 (Medieval Mediterranean, 63) - Hardcover

Cossar, Roisin

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9004152229 ISBN 13: 9789004152229

Publisher: Brill Academic Pub, 2006

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Brill Academic Pub
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 9004152229
• ISBN 13: 9789004152229
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 248