@inbook{b9250af199e5431c8d4f84bb0c62fce4,
title = "Beyond crisis: confraternities in modern Italy between the Church and lay society",
abstract = "[Autom. eng. transl.] The tradition of studies is dominated by the ideas of internal decadence and the progressive ecclesiastical {"}incorporation{"} of the brotherhoods, following the Tridentine turning point in the Catholic sphere. The proposed reflections aim to highlight the limits of a one-sided exasperation of the perspective of the crisis, moving from the examination of different situations and moments, which lend themselves to being used as indicators of the relationship of forces far more widespread and shared: the Republic oligarchic of Genoa, Venice, the Milanese laboratory of the intransigent {"}Borromeo{"} reformism, more marginal peripheral areas such as the alpine background of the diocese of Como. According to nuances differentiated from one place to another, it is recorded that even at the height of the modern age the growth of episcopal and, more generally, clerical control continued to intertwine with the legacies, far from evanescent, of the oldest mixed tradition of the government civic-religious structure, charitable and welfare works and manifestations of worship immersed in the reality of the {"}century{"}, in close contact with the world of the laity and their hierarchically corporative-capillary universe.",
keywords = "Italy, confraternities, early modern, lay society, Italy, confraternities, early modern, lay society",
author = "Danilo Zardin",
year = "2012",
language = "English",
isbn = "978-2-503-53893-8",
series = "Europa sacra, 6",
pages = "331--351",
editor = "Nicholas Terpstra and Adriano Prosperi and Stefania Pastore",
booktitle = "Faith{\textquoteright}s boundaries. Laity and clergy in early modern confraternities",
}