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The seven sorrows confraternity of Brussels : Drama, ceremony, and art patronage (16th-17th centuries), edited by Emily S. Thelen.
- Title
- The seven sorrows confraternity of Brussels : Drama, ceremony, and art patronage (16th-17th centuries), edited by Emily S. Thelen.
- Publication
- Turnhout : Brepols 2015.
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- xi, 168 p. : ill.; 26 cm.
- Summary
- The Seven Sorrows Devotion in its urban context: A ground-breaking interdisciplinary study of the Seven Sorrows confraternity of Brussels. 0Devotion to the Virgin of Seven Sorrows flourished in the Low Countries in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries under the auspices of the court of Philip the Fair. Quickly becoming a widespread phenomenon, the Seven Sorrows devotion generated dramatic plays, artistic works, music, and numerous miracles. Underlying the popularity of the devotion was the network of confraternity chapters dedicated to the Virgin of Sorrows. Of these chapters, the Seven Sorrows confraternity of Brussels was singled out, receiving the special patronage of Philip the Fair, Maximilian I, and Margaret of Austria. Taking the confraternity of Brussels as a focal point, this volume examines the Seven Sorrows devotion in its urban context. The essays of this collection explore the artistic, musical, and dramatic products of the Seven Sorrows devotion as created in and by the civic networks and artistic channels of Brussels. The structure of the confraternity and its historical importance for the city are also demonstrated. As an important counterpoint to work in Italian confraternity studies, this volume is the first interdisciplinary study of a confraternity in the Low Countries in English.
- Series Statement
- Studies in European Urban History (1100-1800) (SEUH) 37
- Uniform Title
- Studies in European urban history (1100-1800) 37.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Church history
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- A tangible past. History writing and property listing by the Brussels Seven Sorrows confraternity, c. 1685 / Brecht Dewilde & Bram Vannieuwenhuyze -- Patronage, foundation history, and ordinary believers: The membership registry of the Brussels Seven Sorrows confraternity / Susie Speakman Sutch -- The Brussels plays of the Seven Sorrows / Remco Sleiderink -- Music and liturgy of the Seven Sorrows confraternity of Brussels / Emily S. Thelen -- An uncelebrated patron of Brussels artists: St Gorik's Confraternity of Our Lady of the Seven Sorrows (1499-1516) / Edmond Roobaert & Trisha Rose Jacobs -- Visualizing the seven sorrows of the Virgin: Early woodcuts and engravings in the context of the netherlandish confraternities / Dagmar Eichberger -- Reforming the Seven Sorrows: Paintings by Wensel Cobergher and Theodoor van Loon for the Brussels chapel of Our Lady of the Seven Sorrows / Tine L. Meganck & Sabine van Sprang.
- ISBN
- 9782503553337
- 2503553338
- OCLC
- 907631657
- SCSB-11046885
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library