A Companion to Medieval and Early Modern Confraternities.

Intro -- A Companion to Medieval and Early Modern Confraternities -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Notes on Contributors -- 1 Introduction: A World of Confraternities -- 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 -- 3 Change and Continuity: Eucharistic Confraternities in Ticino and Switzerland before and after Trent -- 4 The Development of Confraternities in Central Europe in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Period -- Part 2: Devotion and Prayer -- 5 The Ethics of Confraternities -- 6 "A Single Body": Eucharistic Piety and Confraternities of the Body of Christ in Sixteenth-Century Italy: Texts, Images, and Devotion -- 7 Confraternities and the Inquisition: For and Against -- 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 -- 9 Cities of God or Structures of Superstition: Medieval Confraternities and Charitable Hospitals in the Early Modern World -- 10 Confraternities in Late Medieval Ireland: The Evolution of Chantry Colleges -- 11 Confraternities and Capital Punishment: Charity, Culture, and Civic Religion in the Communal and Confessional Age -- 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 -- 13 At the Crossroads of Cultures: The Orthodox Confraternities of Central and Eastern Europe from the 16th to the 18th Century -- 14 Confraternities in Colonial New Spain: Mexico and Central America -- 15 The Generative Space of Jewish Confraternities in Medieval and Early Modern Europe -- Part 5: Arts and Letters -- 16 Singing Praises to God: Confraternities and Music.

17 Serio Ludere: Confraternities and Drama in Central Italy, 1400-1600 -- 18 Faith on Stage: The Chambers of Rhetoric and Civic Religion in the Low Countries, 1400-1700 -- 19 Confraternities and Poetry: The Francophone Puys -- 20 Iconography, Spectacle, and Notions of Corporate Identity: The Form and Function of Art in Early Modern Confraternities -- 21 Art as Confraternal Documentation: Homeless Children and the Florentine Misericordia in the Trecento -- Index.

A Companion to Medieval and Early Modern Confraternities presents confraternities as fundamentally important venues for the acquisition of spiritual riches, material wealth, and social capital in early modern Europe and Post-Conquest America.

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