The Original Statutes of the Ancient and Royal Brotherhood of Our Lady Saint Anne in Dos Hermanas, Spain: Introduction
Contributor(s): Juan Gavala González
After a brief introduction to the Confraternity of St. Anne in Dos Hermanas (Spain), this article offers a transcription of its original 1523 statutes and their translation into English. Aside from being the oldest surviving document from Dos Hermanas, these statutes outline the confraternity’s...
Primitivas Reglas de la Antigua Real Hermandad de Señora Santa Ana
The Original Statutes of the Ancient and Royal Brotherhood of Our Lady Saint Anne
Contributor(s): Brys Stafford
“To Live Piously and to Help the Needy Poor”: The Consortium of S. Allessandro in Colonna, in Bergamo
Contributor(s): Christopher Carlsmith, Louisa Foroughi
This essay explores the activities of the Italian consortium of S. Alessandro in Colonna in Bergamo, through an analysis and translation of the Regola (Rule) that governed it for nearly five centuries. Written in Latin in 1363–65, and republished in Italian in the late sixteenth century, the...
“Charity and the Economy of Power: The Ospedale di Santa Maria della Scala and Siena's Network of Charity in the Sixteenth Century”
Contributor(s): Sarah Marianne Loose
“I Buonomini di San Martino: Patrons and Facilitators of the Visual Arts in Quattrocento Florence”
Contributor(s): Samantha Hughes-Johnson
The charitable activities carried out by the Buonomini di San Martino during the Quattrocento have been reasonably well documented by modern historians. Nevertheless, the patronage and financial aid bestowed on fifteenth-century Florentine artists and artisans by this lay confraternity remains...
“The Picture of Poverty: Charitable and Artistic Patronage in Renaissance Venice”
Contributor(s): Janna Israel
The Congregation of the Most Holy Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin in the Jesuit College in Lecce. Extracts from its Statutes
Contributor(s): Christopher F. Black
Ellen Decraene, “Boundaries Transcended. Sisters of Religious Confraternities in a Small Early Modern Town in the Southern Netherlands”
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
Preface
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
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