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...
Introduction
Contributor(s): Nicholas Terpstra
A Charitable 'Façade'? The Sculptural Decoration of the Scuola Grande di San Marco
Contributor(s): Lorenzo G. Buonanno
The meetinghouse of the Scuola Grande di San Marco possessed the most extravagant façade of any confraternity in Venice. At the same time, however, its sculptural decoration contained more references to charity than were found on any other scuola’s meetinghouse. This essay posits...
Architecture and Charity. Paradoxes and Conflicts in the Construction of the Scuola Grande di San Rocco in Venice (1517–1560)
Contributor(s): Gianmario Guidarelli
This article examines the role of architectural patronage at the Scuola Grande di San Rocco and explores the relationship between building and charity. The San Rocco confraternity hall underwent many changes during its design and construction phases, suggesting that confraternity members were...
Venerable Tradition or Reprehensible Luxury? A Scandal about Processional Display in the Scuola Grande di San Rocco
Contributor(s): Gabriele Köster
A conflict within the Scuola Grande di San Rocco in 1540 concerning the display for the annual procession of Corpus Domini shows clearly that in those years of religious discussion and reformation many members of the scuole grandi were seized by the same wish for religious renewal as...
The Offense of Romanitas: Jacopo Tintoretto’s Ceiling Paintings for the Scuola Grande di San Rocco
Contributor(s): Jessica Maratsos
This article examines the ceiling paintings executed by Jacopo Tintoretto for the Scuola Grande di San Rocco. The Venetian painter’s stylistic choices are analyzed utilizing the dialectic between romanitas and venezianità as elucidated by Manfredo Tafuri. This framework,...
Le Scuole Piccole nella Venezia dei Dogi. Note d’archivio per la storia delle confraternite veneziane
Contributor(s): Filomena Calabrese
Two Confraternity Statutes from Venice: The Scuola Grande di Santa Maria della Carità (c. 1300) and the Scuola Piccola del Santissimo Sacramento in San Felice (1541)
Contributor(s): Jonathan Glixon
Statutes of the Scuola Grande di Santa Maria della Carità
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
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...
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