The development of confraternity studies over the past thirty years

Black, Christopher F.; Terpstra, Nicholas

doi:10.1017/cbo9780511523496.002

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“…Since their origin, confraternities had two main sources of support for engaging in charitable and assistance actions: donations of funds and of properties such as lands and houses. From the Council of Trent, confraternities were recognized as autonomous legal entities (Black, 2000), basing their self-sufficiency on ownership and management of assets received from donors. In fact, they did not receive any funds from religious or local authorities.…”

Section: Confraternities: Origins Organizational Structure and Economic Activitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Accountability for a place in heaven: A stakeholders’ portrait in Verona’s confraternities

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This article describes the accountability features of confraternities in Verona during the Long Seventeenth Century. These charities, driven by a common and deep Christian spirit, played a pivotal role in a period of great depression, helping the local community. The accounts relating to their activities display precision and are rich in analytical detail, enabling the painting of a portrait of Verona’s confraternities and their economic and charitable actions as strictly bound by a spiritual aim. Using the stakeholder theory lens to analyse the archival documents of the 53 confraternities revealed by the Appraisal Book of 1682, this article highlights a complex network of relationships among these organisations and their stakeholders in light of their power, legitimacy and urgency attributes. We conclude that these confraternities’ accountability was the result of the most powerful stakeholders’ influence, and underlines confraternities’ pivotal role in supporting the poor in the local community and encouraging the salvation of souls, supporting their entrance into heaven

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Section: Confraternities: Origins Organizational Structure and Economic Activitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Accountability for a place in heaven: A stakeholders’ portrait in Verona’s confraternities

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“…14 Especially the thorough influence of Renaissance Italian confraternities in the cultural, social and political spheres has been repeatedly emphasised. 15 Yet on a wider scale, Katherine Lynch's recent synthesis has offfered a research agenda that proves particularly challenging to social and economic history. She has argued that 'while all communities existed to support and extend the religious observance of their members, the social purposes of confraternities appear as no less important, helping individuals establish and maintain networks of friendship and mutuality in ways not permitted through family or kinship alone'.…”

Section: The Context: Confraternities In Early Modern Aalstmentioning

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Household credit, social relations, and devotion in the early modern economy. A case study of religious confraternities and credit relations in the Southern Netherlands

Ryckbosch¹,

Decraene²

2014

Tijdschrift Voor Sociale en Economische Geschiedenis/ the Low Countries Journal of Social and Economic History

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This article explores the contingency between the membership and daily functioning of religious confraternities, and the access to and extension of informal credit by urban households. It thus seeks to answer the question whether seventeenth-and eighteenth-century religious confraternities mattered in generating the requirements for market expansion based on interpersonal credit in the local economy of a small early modern town in transition. The analysis suggests that, in so far as confraternal socialization did produce new opportunities for household credit and access to the market, these were shaped by the hierarchical, patriarchal and disciplinary structures and moral categories of post-Tridentine associations.

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“…Confraternities covered an essential role in many urban areas by engaging in activities regarding political, social and economic issues. Their members were highly committed to supporting and promoting social and economic welfare, as well as religious education and social stability (Black, 2000). One of the most critical managerial aspects for confraternities is centered on the art commissioning phenomenon.…”

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“…Confraternities are a peculiar type of religious organization of medieval origin and are widespread throughout Europe, mostly consisting of lay members, based on Christian spirituality, brotherhood and charity (Durand, 1949). They would take up residence in churches, convents, monasteries, friaries or independent chapels (Black, 2000). These organizations are characterized by their regulatory statute, their devotion to a specific Saint (to Jesus or the Virgin Mary), their established mission and, finally, a custom banner (Rondeau, 2000; Esposito, 2000).…”

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Accounting and art: the art commissions of the confraternities during the 15th and 16th centuries

Ciambotti

Palazzi

Sgrò

2022

JMH

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Purpose This paper aims to investigate the link between accounting, religion and art to understand the managerial approach of the Confraternity of Corpus Domini of Urbino and the phenomenon of art commissioning between 1465 and 1513. Design/methodology/approach This study is based on the interpretive historical method used to understand, through accounting, the managerial role of confraternities within the economic activity of art commissioning. To this purpose, the present analysis is based on a primary source, represented by the book of revenues and expenses, named B1 (1465–1513). Findings The analysis has provided evidence of the role of Urbino’s Confraternity in supporting art commissioning and its capacity to invest significant resources in favor of the social, religious and institutional environment of the time. Results show the connection between Urbino’s Confraternity and painters based on their commissioning agreements, the relation between painters and the Ducal Court and, finally, the role of the Duke of Urbino in funding the Confraternity’s initiatives for painters. Thus, this study highlights the major role played by Urbino’s Confraternity in art commissioning, an instrumental part of the Confraternity’s mission. Originality/value This paper presents a unique case study that brings out the managerial approach in art commissioning through accounting documents which make activities and links visible.

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The development of confraternity studies over the past thirty years

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Accountability for a place in heaven: A stakeholders’ portrait in Verona’s confraternities

Accountability for a place in heaven: A stakeholders’ portrait in Verona’s confraternities

Household credit, social relations, and devotion in the early modern economy. A case study of religious confraternities and credit relations in the Southern Netherlands

Accounting and art: the art commissions of the confraternities during the 15th and 16th centuries

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