A Companion to Medieval and Early Modern Confraternities

Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-90-04-34366-5
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 83, 476 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 839 g

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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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Eisenbichler, Konrad

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Klubs, Vereine, Geheimgesellschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Soziale Fragen & Probleme

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations

Notes on Contributors

1 Introduction: A World of Confraternities

Konrad Eisenbichler

Part 1: Birth and Development

2 Confraternities as Such, and as a Template for Guilds in the Low Countries during the Medieval and the Early Modern Period

Paul Trio

3 Change and Continuity: Eucharistic Confraternities in Ticino and Switzerland before and after Trent

Davide Adamoli

4 The Development of Confraternities in Central Europe in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Period

Beata Wojciechowska

Part 2: Devotion and Prayer

5 The Ethics of Confraternities

Gervase Rosser

6 “A Single Body”: Eucharistic Piety and Confraternities of the Body of Christ in Sixteenth-Century Italy: Texts, Images, and Devotion

Danilo Zardin

7 Confraternities and the Inquisition: For and Against

Christopher F. Black

Part 3: Good Works

8 Guides for a Good Life: The Sermons of Albertano da Brescia and other Instructions for Citizens and Believers in Italian Medieval Confraternities

Marina Gazzini

9 Cities of God or Structures of Superstition: Medieval Confraternities and Charitable Hospitals in the Early Modern World

David D’Andrea

10 Confraternities in Late Medieval Ireland: The Evolution of Chantry Colleges

Colm Lennon

11 Confraternities and Capital Punishment: Charity, Culture, and Civic Religion in the Communal and Confessional Age

Nicholas Terpstra

Part 4: Confraternities in a Transcultural World

12 National Confraternities in Rome and Italy in the Late Middle Ages and Early Modern Period: Identity, Representation, Charity

Anna Esposito

13 At the Crossroads of Cultures: The Orthodox Confraternities of Central and Eastern Europe from the 16th to the 18th Century

Dominika Burdzy

14 Confraternities in Colonial New Spain: Mexico and Central America

Murdo J. MacLeod

15 The Generative Space of Jewish Confraternities in Medieval and Early Modern Europe

Federica Francesconi

Part 5: Arts and Letters

16 Singing Praises to God: Confraternities and Music

Jonathan Glixon

17 Serio Ludere: Confraternities and Drama in Central Italy, 1400–1600

Nerida Newbigin

18 Faith on Stage: The Chambers of Rhetoric and Civic Religion in the Low Countries, 1400–1700

Anne-Laure Van Bruaene

19 Confraternities and Poetry: The Francophone Puys

Dylan Reid

20 Iconography, Spectacle, and Notions of Corporate Identity: The Form and Function of Art in Early Modern Confraternities

Alyssa Abraham

21 Art as Confraternal Documentation: Homeless Children and the Florentine Misericordia in the Trecento

William R. Levin

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Konrad Eisenbichler (University of Toronto) works on the intersection of literature, politics, and religion in Renaissance Italy, with a special focus in how this intersection operates within early modern confraternities.