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Space, place, and motion : locating confraternities in the late medieval and early modern city
Title:
Space, place, and motion : locating confraternities in the late medieval and early modern city

Art and material culture in Medieval and Renaissance Europe ;
Author:
Presciutti, Diana Bullen, editor.
ISBN:
9789004292970
Physical Description:
xx, 450 pages : illustrations, color ; 24 cm.
Series:
Art and material culture in Medieval and Renaissance Europe ; volume 8

Art and material culture in Medieval and Renaissance Europe ; v. 8.
Abstract:
Space, Place, and Motion: Locating Confraternities in the Late Medieval and Early Modern City' offers the first sustained comparative examination of the relationship between confraternal life and the spaces of the late medieval and early modern city. By considering cities large (Rome) and small (Aalst) in regions as disparate as Ireland and Mexico, the essays collected here seek to uncover the commonalities and differences in confraternal practice as they played out on the urban stage. From the candlelit oratory to the bustling piazza, from the hospital ward to the festal table, from the processional route to the execution grounds, late medieval and early modern cities, this interdisciplinary book contends, were made up of fluid and contested 'confraternal spaces.'
Bibliographical References:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 391-441) and index.
Field 805:
npmlib 10702006 BX808 S63 ysh
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