Ellen Decraene, “Boundaries Transcended. Sisters of Religious Confraternities in a Small Early Modern Town in the Southern Netherlands”
Contributor(s): Christopher F. Black
Ideas and Experiences of Peace in Italian Confraternities of the Late Middle Ages: Specifics and Developments
Contributor(s): Maria Clara Rossi
Starting from the assumption — underlined by most of the scholarship — that lay devotional association in the Late Middle Ages is largely characterized by its “vocation for peace” and its efforts to attenuate and overcome the conflicts inherent to contemporary urban society, this article...
Bolognese ‘Orations’ between Song and Silence: The Laude of the Confraternity of Santa Maria della Morte
Contributor(s): Gioia Filocamo
The flagellant confraternity of “Santa Maria della Morte” (Saint Mary of Death) in Bologna, established in 1336, was the first institution to systematically take care of the spiritual needs of those sentenced to death. This charitable activity, highly professionalized, followed a set of...
Confraternal Gleanings from Post-Tridentine Piacenza: Bishop Paolo Burali d’Arezzo and the Confraternity of the Most Holy Sacrament
Contributor(s): Serena Quagliaroli
This article focuses on the situation in the diocese of Piacenza during the episcopate of Paolo Burali d’Arezzo (r. 1568–1576) by placing his work within the post-Tridentine context. One of the most important objectives of the Church after the Council of Trent was the recovery of a closer...
Orationi al Cepo overo a la Scala: The Lauda Collection of the Bolognese Confraternity of S. Maria della Morte
Charity for and by the Poor: Franciscan and Indigenous Confraternities in Mexico, 1526–1700
Contributor(s): Laura Dierksmeier
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Contributor(s): Konrad Eisenbichler
The Hospital and Church of the Schiavoni / Illyrian Confraternity in Early Modern Rome
Contributor(s): Jasenka Gudelj
Slavic people from South-Eastern Europe immigrated to Italy throughout the Early Modern period and organized themselves into confraternities based on common origin and language. This article analyses the role of the images and architecture of the “national” church and hospital of the Schiavoni or...
The Cauldron of St. Venera and the Comb of St. Blaise. Cult and Iconography in the Confraternities of Albanians and Schiavoni in Fifteenth–Century Ascoli Piceno
Contributor(s): Giuseppe Capriotti
This article analyzes the relocation of specific cults of saints from the Illyrian coast on the eastern shores of the Adriatic Sea to the Marche region of Italy in line with the migration of communities of Albanians and Schiavoni who gathered into confraternities in their new homeland. It...
Loreto as an Illyrian Shrine: The Artistic Heritage of the Illyrian Confraternities and College in Loreto and Recanati
Contributor(s): Francesca Coltrinari
This article reconstructs the history of the Illyrian confraternity in Loreto and explains the connection between the legend of the Holy House and the Schiavoni. Images related to the confraternity and the Illyrian College before and after the Catholic Reformation are used to explain how the...
Marco Boschini, Matteo Ponzone, and the Altar of the Scuola di San Giorgio degli Schiavoni in Venice
Contributor(s): Tanja Trška
In the first decades of the seventeenth century the altar of the Scuola di San Giorgio e Trifone (also known as the Scuola di San Giorgio degli Schiavoni), at the time situated in the Venetian church of San Giovanni del Tempio, was adorned by an altarpiece by Matteo Ponzone (today in the church...
Réseaux de Confraternité et histoire des bibliothèques. L’exemple de l’abbaye bénédictine de la Trinité de Fécamp
Contributor(s): Stéphane Lecouteux
The Poveri Vergognosi: Fallen Nobility or an Ethical Abstraction Operating within the Boundaries Set by Poverty?
Contributor(s): Samantha Hughes-Johnson
Despite the emergence of various studies focussing on, and tangential to the poveri vergognosi (shamed or shame-faced poor, as they are otherwise referred to), this ambiguous, yet well-known locution has managed to evade satisfactory explanation. This is not to say that previous studies have...
The Jesuit-Guaraní Confraternity in the Spanish Missions of South America (1609–1767): A Global Religious Organization for the Colonial Integration of Amerindians
Contributor(s): Kazuhisa Takeda
This article explores the vertical aspects of the Jesuit confraternity system in the thirty community towns under Spanish rule (1609−1767) designated as “Missions” or “Reductions” in the Río de la Plata region of South America. The principal documents analyzed are the cartas anuas, the annual...
The Reception of Correggio’s Two Altarpieces for Modena in Their Confraternity Settings
Contributor(s): Alyssa A. Abraham
Confraternities and the Plague in Orvieto: 1340–1410
Contributor(s): Alexandra R. A. Lee
Confraternities can be seen as a barometer of social and cultural trends. This article explores the use of confraternity sources as records for the impact of plague. Using Orvieto (Umbria) between 1340 and 1410 as a setting, this article assesses the response to plague by the town’s population...
Writers and Religious Brotherhoods in Seventeenth-Century Madrid: The Congregation of the Slaves of the Santísimo Sacramento de la Magdalena
Contributor(s): Elena Sánchez de Madariaga
This article examines the participation of writers and artists in the Congregation of the Slaves of the most Holy Sacrament of the Magdalene. It presents the major characteristics of the so-called esclavitudes or congregaciones of “slaves”, a type of religious brotherhood promoted by the court...
Localising Collective Devotion: The Bianchi of 1399 at Lucca and Pistoia
Confraternal Organisation in Early Modern Malta
Contributor(s): Frans Ciappara
This article analyses how Maltese confraternities were set up, their composition and their internal organization. Most were inclusive and comprised the adult population of the parish, both males and females though a few companies were restricted to the elite or to particular craftsmen. They...
Black Confraternity Members Performing Afro-Christian Identity in a Renaissance Festival in Mexico City in 1539
Contributor(s): Miguel A. Valerio
In February 1539, Mexico City was the stage of a lavish two-day festival meant to commemorate the Truce of Nice, signed the year before between Emperor Charles V and King Francis I of France at Aigues-Mortes. In this article, I analyze Bernal Díaz del Castillo’s description of a performance by...
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