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Research paper thumbnail of BROLIS Discussioni in famiglia. Umiliati e Valdesi a Bergamo intorno al 1218

the paper studies a family- De Bonate - about 3 members choosing different directions inside the ... more the paper studies a family- De Bonate - about 3 members choosing different directions inside the church: one became a bishop and the others joined Humiliate or Valdesi groups.

Research paper thumbnail of Testamenti di donne a Bergamo nel medioevo. Pergamene dall’archivio della Misericordia Maggiore (secoli XIII–XIV)

Research paper thumbnail of Stories of Women in the Middle Ages

Research paper thumbnail of The Sources of Religious History: from Documents to Historiography

Research paper thumbnail of Bibliografia degli scritti (1987-2022)

Research paper thumbnail of Atti di ultima volontà a Bergamo nella seconda metà del XII secolo

Reti Medievali Rivista, Jun 15, 2010

Research paper thumbnail of Churchmen and Urban Government in Late Medieval Italy, c.1200–c.1450

1. Introduction Frances Andrews 2. Bishop and commune in twelfth-century Cremona: the interface o... more 1. Introduction Frances Andrews 2. Bishop and commune in twelfth-century Cremona: the interface of secular and ecclesiastical power Edward Coleman Part I. Urban Case Studies: 3. Ut inde melius fiat: the commune of Parma and its religious personnel Frances Andrews 4. The employment of religious orders in Piacenza between the thirteenth and the fourteenth century Caterina Bruschi 5. Cremona: a case study Christoph Friedrich Weber 6. Employment of religious in the administration of the Modena commune from the twelfth to the fifteenth century Pierpaolo Bonacini 7. Verona: a model case in the study of relationships between members of religious orders and the government of the city Maria Agata Pincelli 8. The tasks assigned to the Humiliati by the commune of Bergamo (twelfth-fourteenth centuries) Maria Teresa Brolis and Andrea Beneggi 9. Religious and public life: Lucca, a case study Ignazio del Punta 10. Pistoia: a case study Sarah Tiboni 11. Religious in the service of the commune: the case of thirteenth- and fourteenth-century Perugia Giovanna Casagrande 12. On the trail of religious in the medieval communes of Viterbo and Tuscia Eleonora Rava 13. Venetian exceptionalism? Lay and religious in Venetian communal governance Dennis Romano Part II. Ecclesiastial Perspectives: 14. Cistercians as administrators in the thirteenth-century Italian communes Paolo Grillo 15. The Cistercian monk and the casting counter William R. Day, Jr 16. Hermits for communes: the Camaldolese in the service of the communes of central and northern Italy in the thirteenth to fifteenth centuries Cecile Caby 17. Cooperative intervention: sermons supporting the governing authority in fifteenth-century Italy Stefan Visnjevac Part III. Comparisons beyond Central and Northern Italy: 18. Religious in secular offices in late medieval southern Italy Hubert Houben 19. Interactions between lay and ecclesiastical offices in Sardinia Andrea Puglia 20. The abbot and public life in late medieval England Martin Heale 21. Epilogue Frances Andrews.

Research paper thumbnail of Pierre le Vénérable et sa vision du Monde: Sa vie, son oeuvre, l'homme et le démon. Jean-Pierre Torrell , Denise Bouthillier

Research paper thumbnail of La matricola femminile della Misericordia di Bergamo: 1265-1339

Research paper thumbnail of The tasks assigned to the Humiliati by the commune of Bergamo (twelfth–fourteenth centuries)

Research paper thumbnail of Brolis, Valmarina

Breve storia del monastero femminile di s. Maria di Valmarina, dalle origini al XV secolo, sorto ... more Breve storia del monastero femminile di s. Maria di Valmarina, dalle origini al XV secolo, sorto alle pendici settentrionali dei colli di Bergamo.

Research paper thumbnail of Medieval Women: Stories of Daily Lives

is an independent scholar from Bergamo, Italy. She is the author of the monograph Stories of Wome... more is an independent scholar from Bergamo, Italy. She is the author of the monograph Stories of Women in the Middle Ages (McGill Queen's University Press, 2018). Dr. Brolis will discuss the daily life of medieval women in the Lombardy area on the basis of notarial sources and with the aid of coeval iconography.

Research paper thumbnail of Storie di donne nel medioevo, ed. Il Mulino 2017

I present my new book in 8 conferences in Bergamo SBU .In each Library I speak about one famous a... more I present my new book in 8 conferences in Bergamo SBU
.In each Library I speak about one famous and one 'common' woman, after an introduction about a general sobject connected to them.

Research paper thumbnail of Il monastero di Santa Chiara in Bergamo dalla fondazione al XV secolo, in «Franciscana», 17 (2015), pp. 43- 107.

The Monastery of Saint Clare in Bergamo started its history in 1277, when two sisters of the Clar... more The Monastery of Saint Clare in Bergamo started its
history in 1277, when two sisters of the Clarisse order came from Brescia to support the new foundation. The religious house was situated in a west neighborhood, outside the city walls and close to an ancient hospital and a little church called Saint Mary of Charity. Just like the Franciscan friars
did about fifty years before in the same place, also the Clarisse took care of
poor, pilgrims and sick people assisted in the near hospital. During the last two decades of the XIIIth century and during all the first part of the following one, number of nuns and their estate grew together with the support of local confraternities and families from the neighborhood.Mostly based on npublished documents, the study analyzes the medieval history of this unknown Clarisse nunnery
until its crisis in the XV century, giving reports also in an addendum about religious members, supporters and properties.

Research paper thumbnail of A Thousand and More Women...

In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: The Catholic Historical Review 88... more In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: The Catholic Historical Review 88.2 (2002) 230-246 [Figures] In the last forty years, interest in the social composition of confraternities, their welfare activities, and their place in politics and religious life has produced numerous books and articles dealing with confraternities throughout northern and central Italy. One important body of sources is found in matriculation lists, which, even if difficult to analyze, are essential for a better understanding of the development of confraternities as well as for the study of population. These lists throw light on the still not well-studied role of women in confraternities, the subject of the present article. Gilles Gérard Meersseman and Cinzio Violante debated the importance of women in confraternities in 1960. More recent research has shown that women were enrolled in confraternities in Umbria and in Bergamo. But the register of women members of the confraternity of Misericordia Maggiore in Bergamo provides an opportunity to study a substantial number of women participants in confraternity life over a period from 1265 to 1339, when sources of this kind are rare. The Misericordia Maggiore was founded in Bergamo in 1265 under the auspices of the bishop, by the Dominican Pinamonte da Brembate, who composed its rule. From its beginning, it admitted women on the same basis as men. Men and women participated equally in all the activities of the confraternity both spiritual and temporal. But, at some point in the fourteenth century, there seems to have been a change in policy forbidding visitation by women of those imprisoned. Men were required to undergo a one-year period of probation, but this was not the case for women. While there is ample evidence that women played a significant role in both religious and welfare activities—witness such a figure as St. Elizabeth—this source provides an unparalleled opportunity for study of their social position as well as their influence. The Misericordia was by no means alone among confraternities in Bergamo at this time, but it was the largest. Its size—there were more than seventeen hundred women members—was a reflection of its role in civic affairs. It was born out of the strife between the popolo and the milites. These factions, led by important families, the Rivola and Bonghi (popolo) and the Suardi and Colleoni (milites), dominated the political and religious life of the city in the second half of the century. Each furnished a bishop in the late thirteenth century. The pars populi dominated municipal government and,

Research paper thumbnail of Dal 'medioevo cristiano' alla storia religiosa del medioevo: qurant'anni di storiografia (1974-2014). Verona, 21-23 settembre 2015

Research paper thumbnail of Dal ‘medioevo cristiano’ alla storia religiosa del Medioevo: quarant’anni di storiografia (1974 -2014)

Il convegno intende ripercorrere criticamente i percorsi storiografici su tematiche di storia rel... more Il convegno intende ripercorrere criticamente i percorsi storiografici su tematiche di storia religiosa dal paradigma del "Medioevo cristiano" di Raffaello Morghen e dalle sue reinterpretazioni degli anni '70 ad oggi, in un momento in cui la medievistica italiana, in molte sue espressioni, sembra dedicare scarsa attenzione alla storia religiosa.

Research paper thumbnail of All’origine dei primi ospedali in Bergamo. L’iniziativa dei laici nel XII secolo, “Rendiconti dell’ Istituto Lombardo di Scienze e Lettere. Accademia di Scienze e Lettere. Classe di Lettere e Scienze Morali e Storiche”, 127, (1994), pp.53-77

Research paper thumbnail of Dal potere al servizio. Assistenti e malati nel lebbrosario di Bergamo (secoli XII-XIII), In I Malsani. Lebbra e lebbrosi nel medioevo, a cura di Giuseppina de Sandre Gasparini e Mariaclara Rossi, “Quaderni di storia religiosa” 19  (2012) , pp. 175-198.

Research paper thumbnail of (con Andrea Zonca) Atti di ultima volontà a Bergamo nella seconda metà del XII secolo, in “Reti Medievali – Rivista”, XI -2010 , url: <http://www.rivista.retimedievali.it/>.

Research paper thumbnail of BROLIS Discussioni in famiglia. Umiliati e Valdesi a Bergamo intorno al 1218

the paper studies a family- De Bonate - about 3 members choosing different directions inside the ... more the paper studies a family- De Bonate - about 3 members choosing different directions inside the church: one became a bishop and the others joined Humiliate or Valdesi groups.

Research paper thumbnail of Testamenti di donne a Bergamo nel medioevo. Pergamene dall’archivio della Misericordia Maggiore (secoli XIII–XIV)

Research paper thumbnail of Stories of Women in the Middle Ages

Research paper thumbnail of The Sources of Religious History: from Documents to Historiography

Research paper thumbnail of Bibliografia degli scritti (1987-2022)

Research paper thumbnail of Atti di ultima volontà a Bergamo nella seconda metà del XII secolo

Reti Medievali Rivista, Jun 15, 2010

Research paper thumbnail of Churchmen and Urban Government in Late Medieval Italy, c.1200–c.1450

1. Introduction Frances Andrews 2. Bishop and commune in twelfth-century Cremona: the interface o... more 1. Introduction Frances Andrews 2. Bishop and commune in twelfth-century Cremona: the interface of secular and ecclesiastical power Edward Coleman Part I. Urban Case Studies: 3. Ut inde melius fiat: the commune of Parma and its religious personnel Frances Andrews 4. The employment of religious orders in Piacenza between the thirteenth and the fourteenth century Caterina Bruschi 5. Cremona: a case study Christoph Friedrich Weber 6. Employment of religious in the administration of the Modena commune from the twelfth to the fifteenth century Pierpaolo Bonacini 7. Verona: a model case in the study of relationships between members of religious orders and the government of the city Maria Agata Pincelli 8. The tasks assigned to the Humiliati by the commune of Bergamo (twelfth-fourteenth centuries) Maria Teresa Brolis and Andrea Beneggi 9. Religious and public life: Lucca, a case study Ignazio del Punta 10. Pistoia: a case study Sarah Tiboni 11. Religious in the service of the commune: the case of thirteenth- and fourteenth-century Perugia Giovanna Casagrande 12. On the trail of religious in the medieval communes of Viterbo and Tuscia Eleonora Rava 13. Venetian exceptionalism? Lay and religious in Venetian communal governance Dennis Romano Part II. Ecclesiastial Perspectives: 14. Cistercians as administrators in the thirteenth-century Italian communes Paolo Grillo 15. The Cistercian monk and the casting counter William R. Day, Jr 16. Hermits for communes: the Camaldolese in the service of the communes of central and northern Italy in the thirteenth to fifteenth centuries Cecile Caby 17. Cooperative intervention: sermons supporting the governing authority in fifteenth-century Italy Stefan Visnjevac Part III. Comparisons beyond Central and Northern Italy: 18. Religious in secular offices in late medieval southern Italy Hubert Houben 19. Interactions between lay and ecclesiastical offices in Sardinia Andrea Puglia 20. The abbot and public life in late medieval England Martin Heale 21. Epilogue Frances Andrews.

Research paper thumbnail of Pierre le Vénérable et sa vision du Monde: Sa vie, son oeuvre, l'homme et le démon. Jean-Pierre Torrell , Denise Bouthillier

Research paper thumbnail of La matricola femminile della Misericordia di Bergamo: 1265-1339

Research paper thumbnail of The tasks assigned to the Humiliati by the commune of Bergamo (twelfth–fourteenth centuries)

Research paper thumbnail of Brolis, Valmarina

Breve storia del monastero femminile di s. Maria di Valmarina, dalle origini al XV secolo, sorto ... more Breve storia del monastero femminile di s. Maria di Valmarina, dalle origini al XV secolo, sorto alle pendici settentrionali dei colli di Bergamo.

Research paper thumbnail of Medieval Women: Stories of Daily Lives

is an independent scholar from Bergamo, Italy. She is the author of the monograph Stories of Wome... more is an independent scholar from Bergamo, Italy. She is the author of the monograph Stories of Women in the Middle Ages (McGill Queen's University Press, 2018). Dr. Brolis will discuss the daily life of medieval women in the Lombardy area on the basis of notarial sources and with the aid of coeval iconography.

Research paper thumbnail of Storie di donne nel medioevo, ed. Il Mulino 2017

I present my new book in 8 conferences in Bergamo SBU .In each Library I speak about one famous a... more I present my new book in 8 conferences in Bergamo SBU
.In each Library I speak about one famous and one 'common' woman, after an introduction about a general sobject connected to them.

Research paper thumbnail of Il monastero di Santa Chiara in Bergamo dalla fondazione al XV secolo, in «Franciscana», 17 (2015), pp. 43- 107.

The Monastery of Saint Clare in Bergamo started its history in 1277, when two sisters of the Clar... more The Monastery of Saint Clare in Bergamo started its
history in 1277, when two sisters of the Clarisse order came from Brescia to support the new foundation. The religious house was situated in a west neighborhood, outside the city walls and close to an ancient hospital and a little church called Saint Mary of Charity. Just like the Franciscan friars
did about fifty years before in the same place, also the Clarisse took care of
poor, pilgrims and sick people assisted in the near hospital. During the last two decades of the XIIIth century and during all the first part of the following one, number of nuns and their estate grew together with the support of local confraternities and families from the neighborhood.Mostly based on npublished documents, the study analyzes the medieval history of this unknown Clarisse nunnery
until its crisis in the XV century, giving reports also in an addendum about religious members, supporters and properties.

Research paper thumbnail of A Thousand and More Women...

In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: The Catholic Historical Review 88... more In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: The Catholic Historical Review 88.2 (2002) 230-246 [Figures] In the last forty years, interest in the social composition of confraternities, their welfare activities, and their place in politics and religious life has produced numerous books and articles dealing with confraternities throughout northern and central Italy. One important body of sources is found in matriculation lists, which, even if difficult to analyze, are essential for a better understanding of the development of confraternities as well as for the study of population. These lists throw light on the still not well-studied role of women in confraternities, the subject of the present article. Gilles Gérard Meersseman and Cinzio Violante debated the importance of women in confraternities in 1960. More recent research has shown that women were enrolled in confraternities in Umbria and in Bergamo. But the register of women members of the confraternity of Misericordia Maggiore in Bergamo provides an opportunity to study a substantial number of women participants in confraternity life over a period from 1265 to 1339, when sources of this kind are rare. The Misericordia Maggiore was founded in Bergamo in 1265 under the auspices of the bishop, by the Dominican Pinamonte da Brembate, who composed its rule. From its beginning, it admitted women on the same basis as men. Men and women participated equally in all the activities of the confraternity both spiritual and temporal. But, at some point in the fourteenth century, there seems to have been a change in policy forbidding visitation by women of those imprisoned. Men were required to undergo a one-year period of probation, but this was not the case for women. While there is ample evidence that women played a significant role in both religious and welfare activities—witness such a figure as St. Elizabeth—this source provides an unparalleled opportunity for study of their social position as well as their influence. The Misericordia was by no means alone among confraternities in Bergamo at this time, but it was the largest. Its size—there were more than seventeen hundred women members—was a reflection of its role in civic affairs. It was born out of the strife between the popolo and the milites. These factions, led by important families, the Rivola and Bonghi (popolo) and the Suardi and Colleoni (milites), dominated the political and religious life of the city in the second half of the century. Each furnished a bishop in the late thirteenth century. The pars populi dominated municipal government and,

Research paper thumbnail of Dal 'medioevo cristiano' alla storia religiosa del medioevo: qurant'anni di storiografia (1974-2014). Verona, 21-23 settembre 2015

Research paper thumbnail of Dal ‘medioevo cristiano’ alla storia religiosa del Medioevo: quarant’anni di storiografia (1974 -2014)

Il convegno intende ripercorrere criticamente i percorsi storiografici su tematiche di storia rel... more Il convegno intende ripercorrere criticamente i percorsi storiografici su tematiche di storia religiosa dal paradigma del "Medioevo cristiano" di Raffaello Morghen e dalle sue reinterpretazioni degli anni '70 ad oggi, in un momento in cui la medievistica italiana, in molte sue espressioni, sembra dedicare scarsa attenzione alla storia religiosa.

Research paper thumbnail of All’origine dei primi ospedali in Bergamo. L’iniziativa dei laici nel XII secolo, “Rendiconti dell’ Istituto Lombardo di Scienze e Lettere. Accademia di Scienze e Lettere. Classe di Lettere e Scienze Morali e Storiche”, 127, (1994), pp.53-77

Research paper thumbnail of Dal potere al servizio. Assistenti e malati nel lebbrosario di Bergamo (secoli XII-XIII), In I Malsani. Lebbra e lebbrosi nel medioevo, a cura di Giuseppina de Sandre Gasparini e Mariaclara Rossi, “Quaderni di storia religiosa” 19  (2012) , pp. 175-198.

Research paper thumbnail of (con Andrea Zonca) Atti di ultima volontà a Bergamo nella seconda metà del XII secolo, in “Reti Medievali – Rivista”, XI -2010 , url: <http://www.rivista.retimedievali.it/>.

Research paper thumbnail of Brolis  biografie donne medievali ed. Mulino 2016.pdf

«Ecco un libro che sa affiancare il rigore della ricerca alla fre-schezza e alla semplicità del d... more «Ecco un libro che sa affiancare il rigore della ricerca alla fre-schezza e alla semplicità del dettato narrativo, lungi tanto dalla pedanteria di certo accademismo quanto dalla semplificazione di-vulgativa» (dalla Prefazione di Franco Cardini).

Research paper thumbnail of (con Paolo Cavalieri) Le opere delle MIA. L'Assistenza, Collana per il 750° anno di fondazione della Congregazione della Misericordia Maggiore di Bergamo, dir. Attilio Bartoli Langeli, vol. 6, Bergamo 2015.

Research paper thumbnail of (con Paolo Cavalieri) L'altra metàdella MIA. Le donne. Collana per il 750° anno di fondazione della Congregazione della Misericordia Maggiore di Bergamo, dir. Attilio Bartoli Langeli, vol. 5, Bergamo 2015

Research paper thumbnail of (con Paolo Cavalieri e con la collaborazione di Attilio Bartoli Langeli) L'Istituzione MIA. Dalla fondazione ai nostri giorni. Collana per il 750° anno di fondazione della Congregazione della Misericordia Maggiore di Bergamo, dir. Attilio Bartoli Langeli, vol. 3, Bergamo 2015

Research paper thumbnail of Introduzione, in La matricola femminile della Misericordia di Bergamo (1265-1339), Roma, école française de Rome, 2001 (Sources et documents d’histoire du Moyen âge, 4), un volume di ccxx+184 pp., 5 tav (in collaborazione con Attilio Bartoli Langeli, Giovanni Brembilla, Micaela Corato)

Research paper thumbnail of Testamenti di donne a Bergamo nel medioevo. Pergamene dall'archivio della Misericordia Maggiore (secoli XIII-XIV), Prefazione di A. Bartoli Langeli,  Edizioni a cura di A. Zonca, Selci-Lama (Perugia) 2012 (un volume di 333 pp.)

Research paper thumbnail of Brolis Yale Presentation

Talk about my book "Stories of women in the Middle Ages", 2020

Research paper thumbnail of "Maria e le donne nel medioevo",  conferenza nel ciclo dei pomeriggi di maggio 2016, tenuti nella Basilica di S.Maria Maggiore (Bergamo): "Maria, Donna fra le Donne"

Research paper thumbnail of Le fonti della storia religiosa: dai documenti alla storiografia, in collaborazione con Attilio Bartoli Langeli e Gianmarco De Angelis

Research paper thumbnail of Spiritualità e mentalità dei laci al tempo di san Bonaventura (a proposito dell'Albero della Vita in SMM a Bergamo)

Research paper thumbnail of Donne e cibo nel medioevo. Valori, simboli e realtà dalla preparazione al consumo

Research paper thumbnail of La MIA e Santa Maria Maggiore

Research paper thumbnail of Chiara e Francesco: le origini del Francescanesimo al femminile, presso Biblioteca di Verdello (Bg), 2013

Research paper thumbnail of Presentazione del volume:Testamenti di donne a Bergamo nel medioevo. Pergamene dall'archivio MIA (secoli XIII-XIV), a cura di Maria Teresa Brolis e Andrea Zonca, Selci-Lama (Perugia) 2012. Presentazione del volume presso la Civica Biblioteca A. Mai di Bergamo, maggio 2012.

Research paper thumbnail of Presentazione del romanzo 'La Congiura delle Torri' di Francesco Fadigati

Research paper thumbnail of Mille e più donne in fraternità. Il manoscritto MIA 938 (anno 1265). conferenza presso la Sala Galmozzi in Bergamo, novembre 2011

Research paper thumbnail of Recensione a: Giovanna Casagrande,  Intorno a Chiara. Il tempo della svolta: le compagne, i monasteri, la devozione, Assisi 2011, Edizioni Porziuncola, un volume di 228 pp. , in Bollettino di storia Patria dell’Umbria (2011)

Research paper thumbnail of Ore 20.30 Sala Legrenzi -MAT Clusone STORIE DI DONNE NEL MEDIOEVO

Brolis, studiosa di storia medievale, presenta il suo ultimo lavoro Storie di donne nel Medioevo-... more Brolis, studiosa di storia medievale, presenta il suo ultimo lavoro Storie di donne nel Medioevo-prefazione di Franco Cardini-Bologna: Il Mulino, 2016 Introduce Stefano Nembrini coordinatore didattico scuola media istituto VEST In collaborazione con ADSUM Associazione genitori scuola media Istituto VEST e Circolo culturale Baradello

Research paper thumbnail of Brolis scuola di medioevo 2017.pdf

Research paper thumbnail of CITTÀ DI MARTINENGO Lezioni di Storia Medievale

Research paper thumbnail of Venerdì 10 febbraio, ore 18 Storie di donne nel Medioevo

introduce Maria Elisabetta Manca, direttrice della Biblioteca A. Mai di Bergamo intervengono Silv... more introduce Maria Elisabetta Manca, direttrice della Biblioteca A. Mai di Bergamo
intervengono Silvia Carraro, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia
Maria Grazia Recanati, Accademia Carrara di Bergamo

Research paper thumbnail of Dal ‘medioevo cristiano’ alla storia religiosa del Medioevo: quarant’anni di storiografia (1974 -2014) Verona, 21 – 23 settembre 2015

Research paper thumbnail of Dal ‘medioevo cristiano’ alla storia religiosa del Medioevo: quarant’anni di storiografia (1974 -2014)