论文艺复兴时期意大利兄弟会的缘起与特征

On the Origin and Characteristics of Confraternity in Renaissance Italy

作为文艺复兴时期意大利世俗民众表达宗教虔诚与社会互助的社团组织,兄弟会(confraternity)是一个以世俗阶层为主体、男性居主导地位的宗教社团。它具有鲜明的慈善济贫职能,且救助对象呈现出世俗化、本土化和道德化的群体特征。借助于宗教团体互助的方式,兄弟会客观上起到了弥合社会关系,稳定社会秩序的积极作用。

As a community organization of Italian secular people to express their religious devotion and charity activities in Renaissance Italy, the confraternity was a male-dominated religious community of secular as the main body, which had the distinct function of charity and recipients with group characteristics of secularization, moralization localization. By means of religion, the confraternity objectively played a positive role in bridging the social relations and in stabling social order.