A Companion to Medieval and Early Modern Confraternities

494 Pages·2019·6.115 MB·English

by  Konrad Eisenbichler (ed.)

A Companion to Medieval and Early Modern Confraternities
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A Companion to
Medieval and Early Modern
Confraternities
Edited by
Konrad Eisenbichler
leiden | boston
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Cover illustration: Madonna della Misericordia e Confratelli, artist unknown, c. 1345. Church of San Tomà,
San Polo district, Venice, Italy. Photo by Konrad Eisenbichler.
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To Ludovica Sebregondi,
who has been a companion and a guide
to me and many others
on our confraternities journeys,
with thanks.
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Contents
List of Illustrations  xi
Notes on Contributors  xii
1 Introduction: A World of Confraternities  1
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  23
Paul Trio
3 Change and Continuity: Eucharistic Confraternities in Ticino
and Switzerland before and after Trent  45
Davide Adamoli
4 The Development of Confraternities in Central Europe in the
Middle Ages and Early Modern Period  65
Beata Wojciechowska
Part 2
Devotion and Prayer
5 The Ethics of Confraternities  91
Gervase Rosser
6 “A Single Body”: Eucharistic Piety and Confraternities of the Body
of Christ in Sixteenth-Century Italy: Texts, Images,
and Devotion  109
Danilo Zardin
7 Confraternities and the Inquisition: For and Against  133
Christopher F. Black
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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  157
Marina Gazzini
9 Cities of God or Structures of Superstition: Medieval Confraternities and
Charitable Hospitals in the Early Modern World  176
David D’Andrea
10 Confraternities in Late Medieval Ireland: The Evolution of Chantry
Colleges  194
Colm Lennon
11 Confraternities and Capital Punishment: Charity, Culture,
and Civic Religion in the Communal and Confessional Age  212
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  235
Anna Esposito
13 At the Crossroads of Cultures: The Orthodox Confraternities of Central
and Eastern Europe from the 16th to the 18th Century  257
Dominika Burdzy
14 Confraternities in Colonial New Spain: Mexico and Central
America  280
Murdo J. MacLeod
15 The Generative Space of Jewish Confraternities in Medieval
and Early Modern Europe  307
Federica Francesconi
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