A companion to medieval and early modern confraternities

Author(s)

• Eisenbichler, Konrad

Bibliographic Information

A companion to medieval and early modern confraternities

edited by Konrad Eisenbichler

（Brill's companions to the Christian tradition, v. 83）

Brill, c2019

• : hardback

Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

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.

Table of Contents

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

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Details

• NCID: BB28268463
• ISBN:
  • 9789004343665
• LCCN: 2019001635
• Country Code: ne
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Leiden
• Pages/Volumes: xvi, 475 p.
• Size: 25 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : BX808.5.E85
  • DC23 : 267.094/0902
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Confraternities -- Europe -- History
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA79320574