A companion to medieval and early modern confraternities / edited by Konrad Eisenbichler.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Eisenbichler, Konrad, editor.

Series:

Brill's Companions to the Christian Tradition 83.

Brill's companions to the Christian tradition ; volume 83

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Confraternities--Europe--History.

Confraternities.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (491 pages).

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2019]

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 to this volume: 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.

Contents:

Front Matter

Copyright Page

Dedication

Illustrations

Notes on Contributors

Introduction: A World of Confraternities / Konrad Eisenbichler

Birth and Development

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

Devotion and Prayer

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

Good Works

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: / 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

Confraternities in a Transcultural World

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

Arts and Letters

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

Back Matter

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

90-04-39291-2

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004392915 DOI