Contents: Introduction: the confraternity context, Christopher Black; The confraternities and cultural duality in Ireland, 1450-1550, Colm Lennon; Lay persons in power: the crumbling of the clerical monopoly on urban devotion in Flanders, as a result of the rise of lay confraternities in the Late Middle Ages, Paul Trio; In principio erat verbum. Drama, devotion, Reformation and urban association in the Low Countries, Anne-Laure Van Bruaene; Power to the paupers? Confraternal assistance and the poor in 13th- to 15th-century Bergamo, Roisin Cossar; The Confraternite dei Poveri: confraternal home relief and institutionalization of the poor in 16th- and 17th-century Venice, Andrea Vianello; From image of devotion to devotional image: the changing role of art in the Chapel of the Arciconfraternità della Madonna della Consolazione, detta della Cintura, Anna Beth Rousakis; Comforting the condemned and the role of the Laude in Early Modern Italy, Pamela Gravestock; Piety, poetry and politics: Rouen's Confraternity of the Immaculate Conception and the French Wars of Religion, Dylan Reid; Confraternities under suspicion in the Early Modern Period: a Venetian case-study, Christopher Black; Our Lady of Copacabana and her legacy in colonial PotosÃ, Emma Sordo; Confraternities as patrons of architecture in colonial Quito, Ecuador, Susan Verdi Webster; Docere delectando: confraternal drama studies and the Academy, Nerida Newbigin; Incorporating images: some themes and tasks for confraternity studies and Early Modern visual culture, Barbara Wisch; De-institutionalizing confraternity studies: fraternalism and social capital in cross-cultural contexts, Nicholas Terpstra; Index.
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