Loreto as an Illyrian Shrine: The Artistic Heritage of the Illyrian Confraternities and College in Loreto and Recanati
Article | 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
Article | 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
Article | Contributor(s): Stéphane Lecouteux
Review of Archery and Crossbow Guilds in Medieval Flanders 1300–1500
Review | Contributor(s): Aaron Taylor Miedema
Review of Il rigore e la grazia. La Compagnia di San Benedetto Bianco nel Seicento fiorentino
Review | Contributor(s): Konrad Eisenbichler
Review of Le confraternite istriane. Una sintesi
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
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