Introduction Barbara Wisch and Diane Cole Ahl; 1. Confraternity and community: mobilizing the sacred in times of Plague Louise Marshall; 2. 'In corpo di compagnia': art and devotion in the Compagnia della Purificazione e di San Zanobi of Florence Diane Cohl; 3. The Compagnia della Purificazione e di San Zanobi in Florence: a reconstruction of its Residence at San Marco, 1440-1506 Ann Matchette; 4.The acquisition of art by a Florentine youth confraternity: the case of Arcangelo Raffaello Konrad Eisenbichler; 5. The Qualità of mercy: (re)building confraternal charities in Renaissance Bologna Nicholas Terpstra; 6. Passion, compassion, and the sorrows of women: Niccolò dell'Arca's Lamentation over the Dead Christ for the Bolognese confraternity of Santa Maria della Vita Randi Klebanoff; 7. The decorum of the Passion: the plays of the confraternity of the Gonfalone in the Roman Colosseum, 1490-1539 Nerida Newbigin; 8. New themes for new rituals: the Crucifixion Altarpiece by Roviale Spagnuolo for the Oratory of the Gonfalone in Rome Barbara Wish; 9. Appropriating space: woman's place in the confraternal life at Santo Spirito in Sassia, Rome Eunice D. Howe; 10. 'E faucibus daemonis': daughters of prostitutes, the first Jesuits, and the Compagnia delle Vergini Miserabili di Santa Caterina della Rosa Lance G. Lazar; 11. 'She is among all virgins the queen ... so worthy a patron ... for maidens to copy': Livio Agresti, Cardinal Federico Cesi, and the Compagnia delle Vergini Miserabili di Santa Caterina della Rosa Louise Smith Bross; Selected bibliography; Index.