摘要：This article focuses on the activities of confraternities in San Giovanni in Persiceto—a small town in the contado of Bologna—in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. It considers their role in the spiritual lives of the brothers and their place in local religious culture . It examines relations between the confraternity and the larger church . Its argument is that the confraternities played an integrative role in what was an often divided community, but that this role was made possible by relations with "lords superior" outside the community—lords superior who intervened to enforce devotional unity.
其他摘要：This article focuses on the activities of confraternities in San Giovanni in Persiceto—a small town in the contado of Bologna—in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. It considers their role in the spiritual lives of the brothers and their place in local religious culture . It examines relations between the confraternity and the larger church . Its argument is that the confraternities played an integrative role in what was an often divided community, but that this role was made possible by relations with "lords superior" outside the community—lords superior who intervened to enforce devotional unity.
