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Lay Piety in Venice

General

Black, C.F., Italian Confraternities in the Sixteenth Century (Cambridge, 1989)

Donnelly, J.P. and M. Maher (eds), Confraternities and Catholic Reform in Italy, France, and Spain (Kirksville, MO, 1999)

Muir, E. 'The Virgin on the Street Corner: The Place of the Sacred in Italian cities', in The Renaissance: Italy and Abroad, ed. J. J. Martin (London, 2003), 279-91.

Terpstra, N. (ed), The Politics of Ritual Kinship: Confraternities and Social Order in Early Modern Italy (Cambridge, 2000)

Verdon, T., and J. Henderson (eds), Christianity and the Renaissance: Image and Religious Imagination in the Quattrocento (NewYork, 1990)

Venice

Bowd, Stephen, 'Civic Piety and Patriotism: Patrician Humanists and Jews in Venice and Its Empire,' Renaissance Quarterly 69.4 (2016), 1257-1295.

Chavasse, Ruth, ‘Latin Lay Piety and Vernacular Lay Piety in Word and Image: Venice, 1471-Early-1500s’, Renaissance Studies 10.3 (1996), 319–42.

Cocke, Richard, Paolo Veronese: Piety and Display in an Age of Religious Reform (Aldershot, 2001)

D'Andrea, David, 'Charity and Confraternities', in Eric R. Dursteler (ed.), A Companion to Venetian History 1400-1797(Leiden, 2013), pp. 421-48.

Glixon, Jonathan, Honoring God and the City: Music at the Venetian Confraternities, 1260-1807Link opens in a new window (Oxford, 2003)

Goffen, Rona, Piety and Patronage in Renaissance Venice: Bellini, Titian, and the Franciscans (New Haven, 1986)

Humfrey, Peter, ‘Competitive Devotions: The Venetian Scuole Piccole as Donors of Altarpieces in the Years around 1500’Link opens in a new window, The Art Bulletin 70.3 (1988), 401-23.

Humfrey, Peter, The Altarpiece in Renaissance Venice (New Haven, 1993)

Martin, John Jeffries, ‘Salvation and Society in Sixteenth-Century Venice: Popular Evangelism in a Renaissance CityLink opens in a new windowLink opens in a new window’, Journal of Modern History 60.2 (1988), pp. 205-33.

Köster, Gabriele, 'Venerable Tradition or Reprehensible Luxury? A Scandal about Processional Display in the Scuola Grande di San Rocco', Confratenitas 21/2 (2010), 31-42

MacKenney, Richard, 'The Scuole Piccole of Venice: Formations and Transformations’, in The Politics of Ritual Kinship: Confraternities and Social Order in Early Modern Italy, ed. Nicholas Terpstra (Cambridge, 2000), pp. 172-189.

Mackenney, Richard, Venice as the Polity of Mercy: Guilds, Confraternities, and the Social Order, c. 1250-c. 1650Link opens in a new window (Toronto, 2019)

Martin, John Jeffries, ‘Out of the Shadow: Heretical and Catholic Women in Renaissance Venice’Link opens in a new window, Journal of Family History 10 (1985), 21-33.

Martin, John Jeffries, ‘Salvation and Society in Sixteenth-Century Venice: Popular Evangelism in a Renaissance City’Link opens in a new window, Journal of Modern History 60.2 (1988), pp. 205-33.

Martin, John Jeffries, Link opens in a new windowSpiritual Journeys and the Fashioning of Religious Identity in Renaissance Venice’, Renaissance Studies 10.3 (1996), 358–70.

Martin, John Jeffries, Venice’s Hidden Enemies: Italian Heretics in a Renaissance CityLink opens in a new window (Berkeley, 1993)

McCluskey, Karen E., New Saints in Late-Mediaeval Venice, 1200-1500: A Typological StudyLink opens in a new window (London, 2020)

McNamara, Celeste, 'What the People Want: Popular Support for Catholic Reform in the Veneto,' Catholic Historical Review 102 (2016): 65-89.

Morse, Margaret A., The Arts of Domestic Devotion in Renaissance Italy: The Case of VeniceLink opens in a new windowLink opens in a new window, PhD diss. (University of Maryland, College Park, 2006)

Morse, Margaret A., ‘Creating sacred space: the religious visual culture of the Renaissance Venetian casaLink opens in a new window, Renaissance Studies 21.2 (2007), 151–84.

Pullan, Brian S., Rich and Poor in Renaissance Venice: the Social Institutions of a Catholic State to 1620Link opens in a new window .

Romano, Dennis, ‘Charity and Community in Early Renaissance Venice’Link opens in a new window, Journal of Urban History 11 (1984), 63-81.

See also the articles in the special issue of Confraternitas 21/2 (2010), 'Scuola for Scandal: Controversies over Artistic Patronage and Charity in Venetian Confraternities'Link opens in a new window