Flashcards on Condorcet and Confraternities: Historical Analysis
Condorcet and Confraternities: Historical Analysis for Students
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Confraternities
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Question: What role did confraternities play in the missions and outreach of new and existing religious orders during the early modern period?
Answer: They were central to mission outreach: used to gather and socialize recruits, underwrite charitable and mission work, and allow communal living withou
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Question: Which new religious orders began as confraternities?
Answer: The Jesuits, Theatines, Ursulines, Visitandines, Barnabites, Piarists, and Oratorians.
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Question: How did organization as a confraternity benefit the French Daughters of Charity?
Answer: It allowed them to live communally while avoiding enclosure, enabling them to work openly in schools and hospitals.
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Question: Who founded the Confraternity of the Holy Rosary in Cologne and when?
Answer: The Dominican James Sprenger founded it in 1475.
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Question: What was the significance of Dominican rosary confraternities before the Reformation?
Answer: They established branches across Europe to promote the devotion, especially among the illiterate, and claimed about a million members by the eve of th
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Question: How did the Theatines and the Oratory of Divine Love use confraternities?
Answer: They established brotherhoods of nobles to work with the sick and poor in hospitals.
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Question: Which order relied most heavily on confraternities, and what were their confraternities called?
Answer: The Jesuits relied most heavily; their confraternities were called Marian sodalities.
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Question: Where and when did Jesuit Marian sodalities first emerge?
Answer: They first emerged in the Roman College in 1563.
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Question: How did Jesuit sodalities differ from traditional confraternities in structure and social reach?
Answer: By creating separate groups for professionals and nobles, students, and artisans, they fostered more intense socialization and greater cohesion and en
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Question: Give an example of a secret confraternity linked to Jesuit networks and its characteristics.
Answer: The French Company of the Holy Sacrament (established 1629) grew to sixty-two provincial congregations before suppression in 1667 and enrolled royal c