Le confraternite di area romanza tra Medioevo e Età moderna: evidenze testuali e linguistiche
Immacolata Pinto
2022-01-01
Abstract
The focus of investigation in this work regards religious confraternity charters and statutes. Such confraternities or brotherhoods are essentially religiously-inspired associations of lay people whose members (brothers and sisters) share common practices (charity work: assistance to the poor, the sick and dying; management and organization of rites connected with religious festivals; organization of funeral ceremonies and suffrages). They were originally founded and spread between the Late Middle Ages and the Early Modern Age. Here we are presenting a first comparative analysis of the Statutes of some brotherhoods in Romance language areas, from which the following noteworthy data can be summarized as follows: a) notable similarities between lay associations of the Roman Age and semi-religious associations of the Middle Ages; b) identification of common traits between monasteries and brotherhoods and, in general, between several types of loca pia (monasteries, hospitals and brotherhoods); c) identification of recurring central themes, particularly significant for the political-cultural history of devotional societies; d) evidence of behaviors and / or conditions that establish an integrated definition of community of practices, of discourse and text communities. Finally, with reference to male roles, there are interesting semantic shifts, generally produced by contact phenomena.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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