Description
Book SynopsisDespite the paramount importance of confraternities (especially to males) in medieval European society, scholars have tended to neglect not only the social role they played but also the influence they had on the art, drama, music, and thinking of the society in which they not only existed but thrived.
Table of ContentsIllustrations
Introduction
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Devozione to
Rappresentazione : Dramatic Elements in the Holy Week
Laude of Assisi; Cyrilla Barr
Early Italian Dramatic Traditions and Comforting Rituals: Some Initial Considerations; Kathleen Falvey
Music and Ceremony at the Scoula Grande di San Giovanni Evangelista: A New Document from the Venetian State Archives; Jonathan E. Glixon
Cene and
Cenacoli in the Ascension and Pentecost Companies of Fifteenth-Century Florence; Nerida Newbigin
The Good Works of the Florentine 'Buonomini di San Martino': An Example of Renaissance Pragmatism; Olga Zorzi Pugliese
Italian Confraternity Art Contracts: Group Consciousness and Corporate Patronage, 1400-1525; Ellen Schiferl
Religious Furnishings and Devotional Objects in Renaissance Florentine Confraternities; Ludovica Sebregondi
Music in a Florentine Confraternity: The Memorial Madrigals for Jacopo Corsi in the Company of the Archangel Raphael; Edmond Strainchamps
Death and Dying in Renaissance Confraternities; Nicholas Terpstra
Cults and Contexts: In Search of the Renaissance Confraternity; Ronald F. E. Weissman
Caritas/
Controriforma : The Changing Role of a Confraternity's Ritual; Jean S. Weisz
The Passion of Christ in the Art, Theater, and Penitential Rituals of the Roman Confraternity of the Gonfalone; Barbara Wisch
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