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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"confraternity"”.
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The Culture of the Good Death in Seventeenth-Century Mexico City
… members who paid their regular sodality fees. Confraternity death benefits included burial in a church altar, fabrics over the coffin, the attendance of confraternity brothers and sisters in the funeral, and the confratenity priest performing masses for the souls of the deceased. In conclude …
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Colonial Music, Confraternities, and Power in the Archdiocese of Lima
… hegemonic orthodoxy, subaltern heterodoxy, the confraternity as an institutional nexus of these competing forces, and the musical expressions thereof in the Archdiocese of Lima, particularly during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. All strata of society, from slave to viceroy, gathered …
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The emergence of the independent prologue and chorus in Jesuit school theatre c.1550 - c.1700, derived from a comparative analysis of Benedictine, Augustinian and Jesuit school theatre, lay youth confraternity theatre and the oratorio vespertina of the Congregation of the Oratory
An examination of the developments in Benedictine, Augustinian and Jesuit school theatre during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries reveals the Jesuits as leaders in both dramatic and musical innovations. The emergence of seventeenth-century Jesuit theatre innovations in eighteenth-century …
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Sayling, stories from the mothership: narrating political geographies of Nigerian campus cultism
… the nation’s first campus ‘cult’: the Pyrates Confraternity. The collection is, in essence, a character study of Nigerian campus cultism, itself. The stories are organized into three sections that can be mapped onto a ritual landscape: the stages of initiation, participation, and renunciation …
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Cofradías y oficios. Entre la acción confraternal y la organización corporativa en la Valencia medieval (1238-1516)
… from the foundation of the first Valencian confraternity under the reign of James I until the death of Ferdinand the Catholic. The theoretical framework discusses the main European and national contributions on the field, reflecting upon the complex terminology employed by historians to …
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The picture of poverty : Cristoforo Moro and patronage of San Giobbe, Venice
… including testamentary bequests, building and confraternity histories, and landholding policies, I examine how Moro transformed a site that was associated with social and spiritual abjection into a showcase of ducal power. In formulating a set of questions for Moro's work at San Giobbe, I try …
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Black Catholicism: The Formation of Local Religion in Colonial Mexico
… Inquisition cases, ecclesiastical records, and confraternity constitutions to show how the Catholic Church shaped by the Tridentine reforms of the early modern era offered a space for multigenerational blacks to pursue personal relationships with clergymen, mendicant brothers, and the lay devout …
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Donor Portraits in Late Medieval Venice c.1280-1413
… society, including doges, nobles, cittadini, confraternity groups, and patrician women, it becomes clear that such images were, in fact, popular in late medieval Venice and that they were mostly intended for public viewing. Furthermore, the fact that donor portraits are rarely mentioned in the …
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Matthaeus Pipelare's "Fors seulement chanson (II)" and its related motet and mass performance editions and commentary
… than two years he spent as choirmaster for the Confraternity associated with the Cathedral of St. John in 's Hertogenbosch, located in Northern Brabant, almost nothing is known of his professional or personal life. Yet writers of the period hailed his skill and placed him in the same company as …
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'Like Iron to a Magnet': Moses Hayim Luzzatto's Quest for Providence
… as the leader of a kabbalistic-messianic confraternity in Padua, condemned as a deviant threat by rabbis in Venice and central and eastern Europe, and accepted by the Portuguese Jewish community after relocating to Amsterdam. Using unpublished archival documents and manuscripts, as well as …
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The works of art within the Church of St Francis of Assisi, Valletta
… data was also acquired from the archives of the Confraternity of the Immaculate Conception, currently preserved within the friary of the Franciscan Minor Conventuals at Valletta, Malta National Library and University of Malta. Throughout the archival research presented in this study I took note …