Collective Behaviour
The Brotherhoods
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23741277 |
|---|---|
| Authors | A J R Russell-Wood, A J R Russell‐wood (Johns Hopkins University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1982 |
| Pages | 128-160 |
| Publication date | 1982-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Black Man in Slavery and Freedom in Colonial Brazil (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan UK (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1007/978-1-349-16866-8_8 |
| OpenAlex | W2493891786 |
| ISBN | 9781349168668 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 5 |
Guilds of artisans, brotherhoods, and confraternities flowered in western Europe during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. To be sure, a corporate spirit was part of the European ethos itself, as had been shown by the presence of burial societies of early Christians in Rome. Their importance greatly increased in the late Middle Ages, products of an age responding to the stoic doctrines of St Francis and St Dominic, coupled with an entirely secular phenomenon — the emergence of the city. Victims of famine and plague deserted the countryside for the cities, only to fall prey to unemployment, poverty, and enforced vagrancy. The establishment of confraternities of lay men and women had the dual objective of protecting members against such misfortunes and practising works of charity. Such brotherhoods had represented the birth of a social conscience in Europe. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.
Ancient history · Archaeology · Art · Early Modern Europe · Economic history · Ethnology · Ethos · Famine · Geography · Humanities · Middle Ages · Plague (disease) · Political science · Poor relief · Poverty · Sociology · Vagrancy · History · Law · Medieval and Early Modern Justice · Medieval Literature and History · Reformation and Early Modern Christianity
| Highly cited | No |
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