Le confraternite laicali nelle disposizioni sinodali seicentesche della Chiesa pesciatina
Article | Contributor(s): Amleto Spicciani
This article examines the effects of the Catholic reform movement of the sixteenth century in a small Tuscan prelacy (Pescia) that in 1519 was exempted from the jurisdiction of the bishop of Lucca. Using the synodal legislation issued between 1606 and 1717, the article brings to light a...
Donor Portraits in Late Medieval Venice c. 1280–1413
Article | Contributor(s): Angela Marisol Roberts
Review of Studi confraternali: orientamenti, problemi, testimonianze
Review | Contributor(s): Giovanna Casagrande
Sacred Territory, Sacred Brotherhood: Confraternities in the Bolognese Contado
Article | Contributor(s): Matthew Thomas Sneider
This article focuses on the activities of confraternities in San Giovanni in Persiceto—a small town in the contado of Bologna—in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. It considers their role in the spiritual lives of the brothers and their place in local religious culture. It...
The Development and Self-Definition of Penitential Confraternities in Seville, Spain, 1538–1563
Article | Contributor(s): Reanne Eichele
During the sixteenth century many Catholics yearned for an active role in lay religiosity. One avenue to achieve this was through membership in a penitential confraternity. In the first half of the sixteenth century, the pioneering penitential confraternities concentrated on the development...
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...
Review of The Art of Executing Well. Rituals of Execution in Renaissance Italy
Review | Contributor(s): Konrad Eisenbichler
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
Review of La confraternita e la chiesa dell’Annunziata di Pesaro. Il fenomeno confraternale in Italia
Review of The People of Curial Avignon. A Critical Edition of the ‘Liber Divisionis’ and the ‘Matriculae’ of Notre Dame la Majour
Review | Contributor(s): Dylan Reid
Introduction
Article | Contributor(s): Nicholas Terpstra
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...
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...
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...
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,...
Review of L'Archivio Consorziale del clero urbano di Bologna (secoli XI — XX). Inventario. Con un saggio storico di Felice Gallinetti
Review | Contributor(s): Nicholas Terpstra
Le Scuole Piccole nella Venezia dei Dogi. Note d’archivio per la storia delle confraternite veneziane
Article | Contributor(s): Filomena Calabrese
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]
Review | Contributor(s): Jozef Matula
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)
Article | Contributor(s): Jonathan Glixon
Statutes of the Scuola Grande di Santa Maria della Carità
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