Appendix: The Prologue from the Original Latin Statute of the Scuola Grande di Santa Maria della Carità
Contributor(s): Abigail Firey
Statutes of the Confraternity of the Most Holy Sacrament in the Church of San Felice, Venice
Contributor(s): Jonathan Glixon
Savonarola’s Army of Boys: An Investigation into Ideologies of Gender and Age in Late Fifteenth-Century Florence
Contributor(s): Maya Corry
From War to Peace: Archery and Crossbow Guilds in Flanders 1300–1500
Contributor(s): Laura Crombie
Early Medici Patronage and the Confraternity of the Buonomini di San Martino
Contributor(s): Samantha Hughes-Johnson
Medici confraternal patronage is usually associated with public spectacle. Nevertheless, the bonds that this family forged with smaller lay brotherhoods (though the intent was perhaps equally political as with larger groups) can reveal a contrasting view of the clan. Previous studies concerning...
Imágenes barrocas en las reglas de la cofradías sevillanas
Contributor(s): David Granado Hermosín
This article examines the principal devotional figures used by confraternities in Seville (Spain) as part of their Holy Week devotions. It begins with some general comments on the statutes of these confraternities and then moves to a discussion of each confraternity and its seventeenth-century...
More Catholic than Rome: Art and Lay Spirituality at Venice’s Scuola di S. Fantin, 1562-1605
Contributor(s): Meryl Faith Bailey
Parish Priest and Confraternity: Conflict at the Parish Church of St Catherine’s in Zejtun, Malta, 1769–1801
Contributor(s): Frans Ciappara
The Council of Trent made the parish priest the head of the parish, but for a long time priests found it difficult to affirm their authority. Chief among their opponents were the confraternities led by the parish elites. This article examines the difficult relations between Don Francesco Maria...
“La «Sacra Rappresentazione»: Entre les Médicis et Saint-Marc.” Thèse de Doctorat, Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris, 2009.
Contributor(s): Sophie Stallini
Religious Brotherhoods in the Middle Ages and Modern Times (To the end of the 18th Century). An International Conference, 15–16 May 2012, Kielce (Poland)
Contributor(s): Dominika Burdzy, Beata Wojciechowska
Fashioning Family Honour in Renaissance Florence: The Language of Women's Clothing and Gesture in the Frescoes in the Oratory of the Confraternity of the Buonomini di San Martino in Florence
The concept of family honor in Quattrocento Florence has traditionally been associated with the ruling classes. Young, nubile females, dressed in the best garments that money could buy, pious, veiled matrons and cittadini resplendent in their red robes provided visual examples of a virtuous model...
The Statutes of the Confraternity of San Michele in Camaiore, Italy
Contributor(s): L. Giovanna Urist
The Original Statutes of the Ancient and Royal Brotherhood of Our Lady Saint Anne in Dos Hermanas, Spain: Introduction
Contributor(s): Juan Gavala González
After a brief introduction to the Confraternity of St. Anne in Dos Hermanas (Spain), this article offers a transcription of its original 1523 statutes and their translation into English. Aside from being the oldest surviving document from Dos Hermanas, these statutes outline the confraternity’s...
Primitivas Reglas de la Antigua Real Hermandad de Señora Santa Ana
The Original Statutes of the Ancient and Royal Brotherhood of Our Lady Saint Anne
Contributor(s): Brys Stafford
“To Live Piously and to Help the Needy Poor”: The Consortium of S. Allessandro in Colonna, in Bergamo
Contributor(s): Christopher Carlsmith, Louisa Foroughi
This essay explores the activities of the Italian consortium of S. Alessandro in Colonna in Bergamo, through an analysis and translation of the Regola (Rule) that governed it for nearly five centuries. Written in Latin in 1363–65, and republished in Italian in the late sixteenth century, the...
“Charity and the Economy of Power: The Ospedale di Santa Maria della Scala and Siena's Network of Charity in the Sixteenth Century”
Contributor(s): Sarah Marianne Loose
“I Buonomini di San Martino: Patrons and Facilitators of the Visual Arts in Quattrocento Florence”
The charitable activities carried out by the Buonomini di San Martino during the Quattrocento have been reasonably well documented by modern historians. Nevertheless, the patronage and financial aid bestowed on fifteenth-century Florentine artists and artisans by this lay confraternity remains...
“The Picture of Poverty: Charitable and Artistic Patronage in Renaissance Venice”
Contributor(s): Janna Israel
The Congregation of the Most Holy Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin in the Jesuit College in Lecce. Extracts from its Statutes
Contributor(s): Christopher F. Black
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