Italian scholarship on pre-modern confraternities in Italy. From: Renaissance Quarterly | Date: June 22, 1997| Author: Eisenbichler, Konrad | COPYRIGHT 1997 Renaissance Society of America. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Pre-modern European society is characterized by the prevailing presence of spiritual and social lay religious associations. Historical surveys of these confraternal movements reveal extensive implications to both social and religious aspects of medieval and Renaissance associations. Several of these works were published and became of primary interest among art historians and scholars.

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