Society Formed through Mutual Aid : The Continuity and Change of Small Brotherhoods in Early Modern Venice

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  • 相互扶助による社会形成 : 近世ヴェネツィアにおける小兄弟会の展開を中心に

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This paper examines the secular religious brotherhoods and their role in Venice, one of the greatest central cities in the late medieval Europe and Mediterranean world. After the outbreak of the Black Death in the mid-14th century, urban society entered a period of periodic plague epidemics through the 15th century, which widened political disparities and led to the formation of a vertically stratified society. Against this backdrop, how did the religious, political and economic life of the ordinary people (it was called Popolani) in Venice persist and change? In the time of increased risk of poverty and death due to the plague, the mutual assistance services provided by the confraternities in the city must have been important to the urban population. This paper, therefore, will consider the society and social redistribution formed by the confraternities and the guilds, tracing the recent research of Richard Mackenney and examines the scope of the study of the Venetian brotherhood in the medieval and early modern period.

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  • 一橋経済学

    一橋経済学 13 (1), 35-63, 2022-09-30

    一橋大学大学院経済学研究科

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