An analysis of the social, political and religious role of confraternities in Renaissance Bologna, first published in 1995.

A compelling examination of how a religious brotherhood administered charity in its local community and acted as mediator between provincial elites and the earl

Scholars have long recognized the significant role that confraternities, or lay brotherhoods, played in the religious life of medieval and early modern Catholic

In the early development of the modern Italian state, individual orphanages were a reflection of the intertwining of politics and charity. Nearly half of the ch

Listening to Confraternities offers new perspectives on the contribution of guild and devotional confraternities to the urban phonosphere based on original rese