Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Preparing the Soil: The First Jesuit Confraternities and Poor Relief in Rome -- 2 Training the Vine: Reformed Prostitutes and the First Jesuits: The Casa di S. Marta and the Compagnia della Grazia -- 3 Protecting the Roots: Daughters of Prostitutes and the First Jesuits: The Compagnia delle Vergini Miserabili di S. Caterina della Rosa -- 4 Grafting New Shoots: Jewish and Muslim Converts and the First Jesuits: The Casa dei Catecumeni and the Arciconfraternita di S. Giuseppe
5 Working in the Vineyard: The First Jesuit Confraternities in Italy: Toward a Geographic and Chronological SurveyAbbreviations -- Appendix 1: Papal Bulls and Other Documents Relating to Jesuit Confraternities -- Appendix 2: Chronology of the Metamorphoses of S. Marta -- Notes -- Sources -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z -- Illustrations
Summary
"By highlighting the intersection of clergy, elites, and outcast groups, Working in the Vineyard of the Lord illuminates the understanding of religious reform, popular devotion, and changing attitudes toward charity in sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century Italy. Lance Lazar's work represents a new look at popular devotion throughout Early Modern Italy and its distillation in confraternal piety."--Jacket
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-366) and index
