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What Are the Boundaries? Discerning “Pietas” from “Superstitio” in a Frontier Diocese: The Pastoral Action of the Bishops of Como between the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

  • Paolo Portone and
  • Valerio Giorgetta
Religions2024, 15(9), 1108;https://doi.org/10.3390/rel15091108

13 September 2024

Between the 16th and 17th centuries, the conservative characteristic of rural environments and mountain communities represented one of the main worries of the Larian Church, which, despite the work of reform of religious customs undertaken by the ord...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Ecclesiastical Tribunals and “Superstition” in Early Modern Europe (Fifteenth–Nineteenth Centuries))
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