Consorella or Mantellata? Notes on Catherine of Siena’s Confraternal Legacy

Contributor(s): Emily A. Moerer

In addition to her identity as a saint, reformer, political activist and visionary, Catherine of Siena was uniquely affiliated with two groundbreaking institutions of the late middle ages: the lay confraternity and the third order. This paper focuses specifically on the figure of Catherine in...

A Digital Archive of the Architecture of Charity: Venice, c.1100–1797

Contributor(s): Raymond Lifchez, Luca Trolese

The Architectural Visual Resources Library of the Department of Architecture, College of Environmental Design, University of California Berkeley, offers to scholars and students of Venetian social and architectural history a digital database of approximately a thousand images of 139 buildings and...

Il laudario di S. Maria della Morte di Bologna. Il ms. 1069 della Yale Beinecke Library (The laud book of S. Maria della Morte in Bologna. The MS 1069 at the Yale Beinecke Library)

Contributor(s): Alfredo Troiano

Les confréries capitulaires du XIIe au XVe siècle. Une proposition pour la typologie des confréries: de l’institutionnel au relationnel

Contributor(s): Alexis Fontbonne

Conceptual and Material Culture in the Service of Confraternities in Milan

Contributor(s): Starleen K. Meyer

Confraternities & Sodalities in Modern Ireland

Contributor(s): Colm Lennon, Nicholas Terpstra

La Hermandad de Nuestra Señora de la Soledad de Marchena. Cultos y piedad popular en el siglo XVII

Contributor(s): Vicente Henares Paque

Over the centuries, the citizens of Marchena (a town 60 km south of Seville, Spain) have gathered in brotherhoods or confraternities in order to venerate the Virgin Mary with special devotions and with painted or sculpted images of her. The local cult surrounding the image of Our Lady of Solitude...

Machiavelli and Confraternities: A Sermon to the Brethren and a Parody of Their Statutes

Contributor(s): Olga Zorzi Pugliese

La «Commune fantôme» de Clermont au XIVe siècle. Confréries du Saint-Esprit, Charité et Chapitre: organes supplétifs d’un mouvement communal avorté

Contributor(s): Alexis Fontbonne

Making the Profane Sacred: Sixteenth-Century Penitential Confraternities in Seville

Contributor(s): Erin Jordan

The Chanted Mass in Parisian Ecclesiastical and Civic Communities, 1480–1540: Local Liturgical Practices in Manuscripts and Early Printed Service Books

Contributor(s): Herbert Kellman

Hudební aktivity náboženských korporací na Moravě v raném novověku [Religious Brotherhoods and Their Musical Activities in Moravia in Early Modern Times]

Contributor(s): Rudolf Pečman

The Confraternity of Mercy and the Portuguese Architecture of the Sixteen[th] Century

Contributor(s): Fernando Grilo

The Visual Culture of the Foundling Hospital in Central Italy, 1400–1600

Contributor(s): Megan Holmes

The Lady of Sorrows: Music, Devotion, and Politics in the Burgundian Netherlands

Contributor(s): Peter Jeffery

Benvenuto Cellini’s Bid for Membership in the Florentine Confraternity of San Giovanni Battista detta dello Scalzo

Contributor(s): Douglas N. Dow

An unpublished notice in the records of the confraternity of San Giovanni Battista detta dello Scalzo reveals that Benvenuto Cellini initiated a bid for membership in the company in 1557. Although Cellini seems an unlikely confratello, membership in a confraternity would have proved especially...

Toward a Catalogue of Confraternal Material in the Biblioteca Ambrosiana

Contributor(s): Starleen K. Meyer

This article introduces my current work-in-progress towards the identification, analysis and cataloguing of written and artistic sources belonging to the Biblioteca Ambrosiana in Milan that focus on the increasingly important areas of confraternities, understood as spontaneously formed lay groups...

“The Illumination of Confraternity and Guild Statutes in Venice, ca. 1260–1500: Mariegola Production, Inonography, and Use.”

Contributor(s): Jonathan J.G. Alexander

La devoción popular a la Santa Vera Cruz. Fundación de cofradías penitenciales en el ámbito gaditano

Contributor(s): Francisco Espinosa de los Monteros Sánchez

With the end of the Middle Ages and in response to several factors, the devotion to the True Cross, introduced by the Franciscan friars, leads to the formation of the first penitential brotherhoods on the Iberian peninsula: the Vera Cruz brotherhoods. The first associations emerged in Spain at...

Le confraternite laicali nelle disposizioni sinodali seicentesche della Chiesa pesciatina

Contributor(s): Amleto Spicciani

This article examines the effects of the Catholic reform movement of the sixteenth century in a small Tuscan prelacy (Pescia) that in 1519 was exempted from the jurisdiction of the bishop of Lucca. Using the synodal legislation issued between 1606 and 1717, the article brings to light a...