Confraternities were the most common form of organized religious
life in medieval and early modern Europe. They were at once the lay
face of the church, the spiritual heart of civic government, and
the social kin who claimed the allegiance of peers and the
obedience of subordinates. In this 1999 collection, fifteen
scholars examine the development of confraternities in Italy, where
they emerged first and had the greatest impact. Individual essays
explore a common set of themes across Italy from the twelfth to the
eighteenth centuries: the ubiquity of confraternities, social
construction, and devotional ethos; their ritual culture and civic
religion; their antagonistic and collaborative relations with both
civic and ecclesiastical authorities; and their role in social
welfare and social control of marginal groups. The authors
demonstrate how the ritual kinship expressed in confraternities
emerged in the Middle Ages and became a powerful force in
'civilizing' early modern Italian society.
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