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  1. Beyond the Social and the Spiritual: Redefining the Urban Confraternities of Late Medieval Anatolia

    Beyond the Social and the Spiritual: Redefining the Urban Confraternities of Late Medieval Anatolia

    Article | 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...

  2. Review of The Art of Executing Well. Rituals of Execution in Renaissance Italy
  3. Review of Le confraternite laicali in Umbria in età moderna e contemporanea. Storia istituzionale e archivi. Atti dell'incontro di studio – Perugia, 27 marzo 2007
  4. Review of La confraternita e la chiesa dell’Annunziata di Pesaro. Il fenomeno confraternale in Italia
  5. Review of The People of Curial Avignon. A Critical Edition of the ‘Liber Divisionis’ and the ‘Matriculae’ of Notre Dame la Majour
  6. Introduction

    Introduction

    Article | Contributor(s): Nicholas Terpstra

  7. A Charitable 'Façade'? The Sculptural Decoration of the Scuola Grande di San Marco

    A Charitable 'Façade'? The Sculptural Decoration of the Scuola Grande di San Marco

    Article | 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...

  8. Architecture and Charity. Paradoxes and Conflicts in the Construction of the Scuola Grande di San Rocco in Venice (1517–1560)

    Architecture and Charity. Paradoxes and Conflicts in the Construction of the Scuola Grande di San Rocco in Venice (1517–1560)

    Article | 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...

  9. Venerable Tradition or Reprehensible Luxury? A Scandal about Processional Display in the Scuola Grande di San Rocco

    Venerable Tradition or Reprehensible Luxury? A Scandal about Processional Display in the Scuola Grande di San Rocco

    Article | 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...

  10. The Offense of Romanitas: Jacopo Tintoretto’s Ceiling Paintings for the Scuola Grande di San Rocco

    The Offense of Romanitas: Jacopo Tintoretto’s Ceiling Paintings for the Scuola Grande di San Rocco

    Article | 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,...

  11. Review of L'Archivio Consorziale del clero urbano di Bologna (secoli XI — XX). Inventario. Con un saggio storico di Felice Gallinetti
  12. Le Scuole Piccole nella Venezia dei Dogi. Note d’archivio per la storia delle confraternite veneziane
  13. Review of Zbožných duší úl. Náboženská bratrstva v kultuře ranĕnovovĕké Moravy [A Hive of Devout Souls. Religious Fraternities in the Culture of Early Modern Moravia]
  14. 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)
  15. Statutes of the Scuola Grande di Santa Maria della Carità

    Statutes of the Scuola Grande di Santa Maria della Carità

    Article | Contributor(s): Jonathan Glixon

  16. Appendix: The Prologue from the Original Latin Statute of the Scuola Grande di Santa Maria della Carità
  17. Statutes of the Confraternity of the Most Holy Sacrament in the Church of San Felice, Venice
  18. Savonarola’s Army of Boys: An Investigation into Ideologies of Gender and Age in Late Fifteenth-Century Florence
  19. From War to Peace: Archery and Crossbow Guilds in Flanders 1300–1500
  20. Review of Gli statuti delle confraternite modenesi dal X al XVI secolo

    Review of Gli statuti delle confraternite modenesi dal X al XVI secolo

    Review | Contributor(s): Konrad Eisenbichler