Confraternities in southern Italy
Subtitle: art, politics, and religion (1100-1800)
By: edited by David D'Andrea and Salvatore Marino
Contributors: Victoria University (Toronto, Ont.). Centre for Renaissance and Reformation Studies
Series: Essays and studies -- 52; Essays and studies (Victoria University (Toronto, Ont.). Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies) -- 52.
Publisher: Centre for Renaissance and Reformation Studies
Published: 2022
Place of publication: Toronto, Ontario
Language: eng
Number of pages: 579
ISBN-13: 9780772722201
Copyright date: 2022
Subjects: Confraternities; History; Confréries; Historiographie; Histoire
Description: "Confraternity studies has been one of the most innovative and active fields of scholarly inquiry in the last several decades, yet few scholars have ventured beyond the traditional focus on northern Italian communities. This ambitious volume addresses the historical and historiographical origins of these scholarly biases, introduces the vibrant yet understudied world of southern Italian confraternities, and provides many suggestions for areas of future research and comparative analysis. Fifteen essays by leading Italian scholars investigate medieval and early modern religious confraternities in Naples, several mainland regions, and the islands of Sicily and Sardinia. The result is not only the first book in English to examine southern Italian confraternities, but also the most wide-ranging chronological and geographic survey in any language. The collection makes a significant contribution to confraternity studies and will interest scholars of art, religion, lay sociability, and charitable institutions in Italy, Europe, and the Mediterranean."--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Issued also in electronic format.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / David D'Andrea, Salvatore Marino; title: The language(s) of southern Italian confraternities: a glossary of terms / Marco Piana; title: Sacred imagery, confraternities, and urban space in medieval Naples / Stefano D'Ovidio; title: The art of power: the Confraternity of Santa Marta in Naples during the reign of the Angiò-Durazzo (1381-1425) / Luciana Mocciola; title: Chivalric ideals and popular piety in an early modern metropolis: the Confraternita dei Pellegrini and its hospital / Giovanni Lombardi; title: "Spanish" confraternities in early modern Naples / Ida Mauro, Elisa Novi Chavarria; title: Confraternities in medieval Benevento / Gemma T. Colesanti, Eleni Sakellariou; title: Medieval confraternities in Abruzzo / Salvatore Marino; title: Confraternities in Abruzzo and Molise between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries / Valeria Cocozza; title: Religious sociability in early modern Terra di Lavoro / Giulio Sodano; title: Confraternities and historical memory in the Principato Citra / David D'Andrea; title: The religion of the laity: the confraternities of Reggio in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries / Mirella Vera Mafrici; title: An early modern Apulia confraternity: the Real Monte di Pietà in Barletta (ca. 16th-18th centuries) / Angela Carbone; title: Beyond the capital: an eighteenth-century survey of charitable institutions in the Kingdom of Naples / Paola Avallone, Raffaella Salvemini; title: Medieval confraternities in Palermo / Vita Russo, Daniela Santoro; title: Confraternities and public display in Messina: from Antonella da Messina to the Arciconfraternita degli Azzuri and the Arciconfraternita dei Rossi / Salvatore Bottari, Alessandro Abbate; title: Medieval and early modern confraternities in Sardinia / Mariangela Rapetti.