Review of Le confraternite istriane. Una sintesi
Review | Contributor(s): Konrad Eisenbichler
The Poveri Vergognosi: Fallen Nobility or an Ethical Abstraction Operating within the Boundaries Set by Poverty?
Article | 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
Article | 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
Article | Contributor(s): Alyssa A. Abraham
Review of Confraternite della Svizzera italiana. Vol. 1: Storia di una presenza dal 1291 a oggi. Vol. 2: Le 1155 Compagnie devote attive nelle parrocchie
Review of Dans le sillage de la Réforme catholique : les confréries religieuses dans le nord du diocèse de Cambrai (1559-1786)
Review | Contributor(s): Jennifer Strtak
Review of Space, Place, and Motion: Locating Confraternities in the Late Medieval and Early Modern City
Review | Contributor(s): Benedetta Lamanna
Review of Cathars in Question
Review | Contributor(s): Robin Sutherland-Harris
Confraternities and the Plague in Orvieto: 1340–1410
Article | 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
Article | 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
Review of L’Umiltà e le rose. Storia di una compagnia femminile a Torino tra età moderna e contemporanea
Review | Contributor(s): Mattia Zangari
Review of Le figlie della Compagnia. Casa del soccorso, Opera del deposito, Educatorio Duchessa Isabella fra età moderna e contemporanea (2 vols.)
Review of Per una storia della Compagnia di San Paolo (1563–1853) (Vols. 1–3)
Review | Contributor(s): Katharina Logan
Review of I “Censi” presso la Compagnia di San Paolo nei secoli XVIII e XIX
Review | Contributor(s): Alessandro Loss
Review of A “Compromisso” for the Future: 500th Anniversary of the First Printed Edition of the Compromisso of the Confraternity of the Misericórdia
Review | Contributor(s): Laura Avesani
Review of CXXII reglas de hermandades y cofradías andaluzas. Siglos XVI y XVII
Review of Istoria della venerabilissima compagnia della fede catolica, sotto l’invocazione di San Paolo, nell’augusta città di Torino
Review | Contributor(s): Cristina Carnevale
Confraternal Organisation in Early Modern Malta
Article | 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
Article | 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...
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