The Bigallo Triptych: A Document of Confraternal Charity in Fourteenth-Century Florence
Contributor(s): William R. Levin
This article will attempt to place securely an important work of fourteenth-century Florentine painting by one of its greatest artists in its original social milieu and confraternal location, applying several methodologies to accomplish this. It takes up the challenge first by addressing the...
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Contributor(s): Konrad Eisenbichler
The Confraternities of Modena between the Middle Ages and Renaissance. Rules, Social Profiles and Spirituality
Contributor(s): Matteo Al Kalak
This article traces the foundation and development of confraternities in the city of Modena and identifies key events that influenced how lay associations determined the social, spiritual, and cultural responsibilities outlined in their statutes. Over time, however, the confraternities underwent...
A Lost Confraternity: San Rocco in Modena and its Church
Contributor(s): Simone Sirocchi
This article retraces the history of the Confraternita di San Rocco (Confraternity of St. Roch) in Modena from its foundation in the late fifteenth century to its abolition in the eighteenth century. Thanks to newly examined archival documents, the article details the building and decorative work...
Correggio’s Madonna di San Giorgio and the Post-Tridentine Devotional Rappresentazioni at the Confraternity of Saint Peter Martyr in Modena
Contributor(s): Alyssa Abraham
This article examines the ways in which the members of the confraternity of Saint Peter Martyr in Modena used ephemeral architecture, symbolic imagery, inscriptions, lavish decorations, and performance to activate and emphasize the spiritual function of Correggio’s Madonna di San Giorgio in...
Contributor(s): Marco Piana
The Thoughts of a Noble Prisoner: Giovanni Marco Pio da Carpi’s Laude as Examples of Good Morality
Contributor(s): Gioia Filocamo
The fifteenth-century manuscript MS 157 of the Biblioteca Universitaria di Bologna belongs to a series of books related to the task of comforting those condemned to death in Bologna. To carry out such comforting, the local Confraternity of Santa Maria della Morte (founded 1336) used, among other...
Two Fragments of a Late Fourteenth-Century Vernacular Laudario by Sante Cicchi for the Flagellant Confraternity of Santo Stefano in Assisi
Contributor(s): Francesco Santucci
After a few biographical notes on the notary Sante Cicchi of Assisi and a brief description of fragment AS2 from a laudario he compiled in 1388 for the flagellant confraternity of Santo Stefano in Assisi, of which he was a member, this article examines some echoes of Dante’s Divine Comedy to be...
Fonte de Pietade: Blood Devotion and Blood Consumption in the Laudari ‘Illuminati’ and ‘Frondini’
The following article analyses episodes of blood devotion in two fourteenth-century laudari written by the members of the confraternity of the Disciplinati di Santo Stefano in Assisi, otherwise known as the ‘Frondini’ and ‘Illuminati’ laudari. Through the analysis of a selection of laude...
Saint Margaret of Cortona (1247–1297) and the Laudario of the Confraternity of Santa Maria delle Laude in Cortona
Contributor(s): Mattia Zangari
For his compilation of the Life or Legend of Saint Margaret of Cortona (1247–1297), the Franciscan friar Giunta Bevegnati (thirteenth century) was guided by texts found in a collection of laude belonging to the Confraternity of Santa Maria delle laude in Cortona and the iconography associated...
Un recueil de laudes de Costacciaro. Pour une nouvelle attribution du ms. BNCF, Landau Finaly 39
Contributor(s): Mara Nerbano
Le manuscrit Landau Finaly n. 39 de la Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale de Florence, connu des érudits comme le laudario ‘Eugubino’, a été attribuée jusqu’à ce jour à la confrérie de Santa Maria del Mercato à Gubbio. Cette proposition sur l’origine du volume, avancée vers la fin du XIXe siècle par...
Sancto Tomascy de Aquino: A Medieval Confraternity in L’Aquila and its Laudario
Contributor(s): Francesco Zimei
The confraternity of San Tommaso d’Aquino, founded in the church of the Dominicans in L’Aquila at the beginning of the fourteenth century thanks to the patronage of the wealthy merchant family Gaglioffi and to a number of important relationships, immediately became one of the most prestigious...
A Seventeenth-Century Confraternity in Santa Ana, San Salvador. What It Can Tell Us about That Era
Contributor(s): Murdo J. MacLeod
The colonial settlement of Santa Ana has been somewhat neglected by authorities and historians. This article looks at the founding there in 1672–73 of a confraternity dedicated to Saint Rose of Lima and how this illustrates several aspects of life at that time. When the bishop of Guatemala...
The Sixteenth-Century Statutes of the Confraternity of San Francesco in Orvieto
This article presents the 1573 statutes of the flagellant confraternity of San Francesco in Orvieto (founded 1323) and provides a transcription of these statutes. It describes the manuscript, analyses its attribution to this confraternity, and briefly summarises the confraternity’s own history.
The Penitential Language of the Congregation of Artisans in the Neapolitan Pastoral Care of Francesco De Geronimo
Contributor(s): Pasquale Rubini
Between the end of the seventeenth century and the beginning of the eighteenth, the Congregation of Artisans in Naples, spiritually led by the Jesuit Fr. Francesco De Geronimo, expressed its participation in the sufferings of Christ with a public procession that included elements of corporal...
Eisenbichler, Konrad (ed.). A Companion to Medieval and Early Modern Confraternities. Brill Companions to the Christian Tradition, 83. Leiden: Brill, 2019.
Contributor(s): Nilab Ferozan
Murovec, Barbara, Mija Oter Gorenčič, and Barbara Wisch, eds. Illuminating the Soul, Glorifying the Sacred. Religious Confraternities and the Visual Arts in Early Modern Europe. Special issue of Acta historiae artis slovenica, 23.2 (2018)
Contributor(s): Alistair Watkins
Rihouet, Pascale. Art Moves. The Material Culture of Procession in Renaissance Perugia. London: Harvey Miller Publishers / Turnout: Brepols, 2017.
Contributor(s): Arazoo Ferozan
Sá, Isabel dos Guimarães. O Regresso dos Mortos. Os Doadores da Misericórdia do Porto e a Expansão Oceânica (Séculos XVI–XVII). Lisbon: Imprensa de Ciências Sociais, 2018.
Contributor(s): Lorena Sodano Ribeiro Flores
Center of Reformation and Renaissance Studies at Victoria University
Contributor(s): F. D. Hoeniger
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