A companion to medieval and early modern confraternities

"After the State and the Church, the most well organized membership system of medieval and early modern Europe was the confraternity. In cities, towns, and villages it would have been difficult for someone not to be a member of a confraternity, the recipient of its charity, or aware of its pres...

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Contributors: Eisenbichler, Konrad 1949- (Editor)
Format: Electronic Book
Language:English
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Published: Leiden Boston Brill 2019
In:Year: 2019
Series/Journal:Brill's companions to the Christian tradition volume 83
Late Antiquity and Medieval Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2019, ISBN: 9789004386303
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Europe / Brotherhood / History
Further subjects:B Electronic books
B Confraternities (Europe) History
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Summary:"After the State and the Church, the most well organized membership system of medieval and early modern Europe was the confraternity. In cities, towns, and villages it would have been difficult for someone not to be a member of a confraternity, the recipient of its charity, or aware of its presence in the community. In A Companion to Medieval and Early Modern Confraternities, Konrad Eisenbichler brings together an international group of scholars to examine confraternities from various perspectives: their origins and development, their devotional practices, their charitable activities, and their contributions to literature, music, and art. The result is a picture of confraternities as important venues for the acquisition of spiritual riches, material wealth, and social capital. Contributors include: Alyssa Abraham, Davide Adamoli, Christopher F. Black, Dominika Burdzy , David D'Andrea, Konrad Eisenbichler, Anna Esposito, Federica Francesconi, Marina Gazzini, Jonathan Glixon, Colm Lennon, William R. Levin, Murdo J. MacLeod, Nerida Newbigin, Dylan Reid, Gervase Rosser, Nicholas Terpstra, Paul Trio, Anne-Laure Van Bruaene, Beata Wojciechowska, and Danilo Zardin"--
Introduction: a world of confraternities / Konrad Eisenbichler -- Confraternities as such, and as a template for guilds in the Low Countries during the medieval and the early modern period / Paul Trio -- Change and continuity: Eucharistic confraternities in Ticino and Switzerland before and after Trent / Davide Adamoli -- The development of confraternities in Central Europe in the middle ages and early modern period / Beata Wojciechowska -- The ethics of confraternities / Gervase Rosser -- "A single body": Eucharistic piety and confraternities of the body of Christ in sixteenth-century Italy: texts, images, and devotion / Danilo Zardin -- Confraternities and the Inquisition: for and against / Christopher F. Black -- Guides for a good life: the sermons of Albertano da Brescia and other instructions for citizens and believers in Italian medieval confraternities / Marina Gazzini -- Cities of God or structures of superstition: medieval confraternities and charitable hospitals in the early modern world / David D'Andrea -- Confraternities in late medieval Ireland: the evolution of chantry colleges / Colm Lennon -- Confraternities and capital punishment: charity, culture, and civic religion in the communal and confessional age / Nicholas Terpstra -- National confraternities in Rome and Italy in the late Middle Ages and early modern period: identity, representation, charity / Anna Esposito -- At the crossroads of cultures: the Orthodox confraternities of Central and Eastern Europe from the 16th to the 18th century / Dominika Burdzy -- Confraternities in colonial New Spain: Mexico and Central America / Murdo J. MacLeod -- The generative space of Jewish confraternities in medieval and early modern Europe / Federica Francesconi -- Singing praises to God: confraternities and music / Jonathan Glixon -- Serio ludere: confraternities and drama in central Italy, 1400-1600 / Nerida Newbigin -- Faith on stage. the chambers of rhetoric and civic religion in the Low Countries, 1400-1700 / Anne-Laure Van Bruaene -- Confraternities and poetry: the Francophone puys / Dylan Reid -- Iconography, spectacle, and notions of corporate identity: the form and function of art in early modern confraternities / Alyssa Abraham -- Art as confraternal documentation: homeless children and the Florentine Misericordia in the Trecento / William R. Levin
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN:9004392912
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1163/9789004392915