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An unpublished notice in the records of the confraternity of San Giovanni Battista detta dello Scalzo reveals that Benvenuto Cellini initiated a bid for membership in the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
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...
Donor Portraits in Late Medieval Venice c. 1280–1413
Contributor(s): Angela Marisol Roberts
Sacred Territory, Sacred Brotherhood: Confraternities in the Bolognese Contado
Contributor(s): Matthew Thomas Sneider
This article focuses on the activities of confraternities in San Giovanni in Persiceto—a small town in the contado of Bologna—in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. It considers their role in the spiritual lives of the brothers and their place in local religious culture. It...
The Development and Self-Definition of Penitential Confraternities in Seville, Spain, 1538–1563
Contributor(s): Reanne Eichele
During the sixteenth century many Catholics yearned for an active role in lay religiosity. One avenue to achieve this was through membership in a penitential confraternity. In the first half of the sixteenth century, the pioneering penitential confraternities concentrated on the development...
Beyond the Social and the Spiritual: Redefining the Urban Confraternities of Late Medieval Anatolia
Contributor(s): Rachel Goshgarian
This dissertation is the first comprehensive study of the phenomenon of the urban confraternity in thirteenth and fourteenth-century Anatolia. Urban confraternities in late medieval Anatolia played a range of roles in cities like Ankara, Erzincan, Konya and Sivas. The important political and...
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