The Poveri Vergognosi: Fallen Nobility or an Ethical Abstraction Operating within the Boundaries Set by Poverty?
Contributor(s): Samantha Hughes-Johnson
Despite the emergence of various studies focussing on, and tangential to the poveri vergognosi (shamed or shame-faced poor, as they are otherwise referred to), this ambiguous, yet well-known locution has managed to evade satisfactory explanation. This is not to say that previous studies have...
The Jesuit-Guaraní Confraternity in the Spanish Missions of South America (1609–1767): A Global Religious Organization for the Colonial Integration of Amerindians
Contributor(s): Kazuhisa Takeda
This article explores the vertical aspects of the Jesuit confraternity system in the thirty community towns under Spanish rule (1609−1767) designated as “Missions” or “Reductions” in the Río de la Plata region of South America. The principal documents analyzed are the cartas anuas, the annual...
The Reception of Correggio’s Two Altarpieces for Modena in Their Confraternity Settings
Contributor(s): Alyssa A. Abraham
Confraternities and the Plague in Orvieto: 1340–1410
Contributor(s): Alexandra R. A. Lee
Confraternities can be seen as a barometer of social and cultural trends. This article explores the use of confraternity sources as records for the impact of plague. Using Orvieto (Umbria) between 1340 and 1410 as a setting, this article assesses the response to plague by the town’s population...
Writers and Religious Brotherhoods in Seventeenth-Century Madrid: The Congregation of the Slaves of the Santísimo Sacramento de la Magdalena
Contributor(s): Elena Sánchez de Madariaga
This article examines the participation of writers and artists in the Congregation of the Slaves of the most Holy Sacrament of the Magdalene. It presents the major characteristics of the so-called esclavitudes or congregaciones of “slaves”, a type of religious brotherhood promoted by the court...
Localising Collective Devotion: The Bianchi of 1399 at Lucca and Pistoia
Confraternal Organisation in Early Modern Malta
Contributor(s): Frans Ciappara
This article analyses how Maltese confraternities were set up, their composition and their internal organization. Most were inclusive and comprised the adult population of the parish, both males and females though a few companies were restricted to the elite or to particular craftsmen. They...
Black Confraternity Members Performing Afro-Christian Identity in a Renaissance Festival in Mexico City in 1539
Contributor(s): Miguel A. Valerio
In February 1539, Mexico City was the stage of a lavish two-day festival meant to commemorate the Truce of Nice, signed the year before between Emperor Charles V and King Francis I of France at Aigues-Mortes. In this article, I analyze Bernal Díaz del Castillo’s description of a performance by...
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...
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