Konread Eisenbichler is a professor of religion at the University of Toronto and teaches in the Renaissance Studies Program and in the Department of Italian Studies. He has published on fixteenth- and sixteenth- century Italy, particularly lay religious confraternities.

• IllustrationsIntroductionFrom Devozione to Rappresentazione : Dramatic Elements in the Holy Week Laude of Assisi; Cyrilla BarrEarly Italian Dramatic Traditions and Comforting Rituals: Some Initial Considerations; Kathleen FalveyMusic and Ceremony at the Scoula Grande di San Giovanni Evangelista: A New Document from the Venetian State Archives; Jonathan E. GlixonCene and Cenacoli in the Ascension and Pentecost Companies of Fifteenth-Century Florence; Nerida NewbiginThe Good Works of the Florentine 'Buonomini di San Martino': An Example of Renaissance Pragmatism; Olga Zorzi PuglieseItalian Confraternity Art Contracts: Group Consciousness and Corporate Patronage, 1400-1525; Ellen SchiferlReligious Furnishings and Devotional Objects in Renaissance Florentine Confraternities; Ludovica SebregondiMusic in a Florentine Confraternity: The Memorial Madrigals for Jacopo Corsi in the Company of the Archangel Raphael; Edmond StrainchampsDeath and Dying in Renaissance Confraternities; Nicholas TerpstraCults and Contexts: In Search of the Renaissance Confraternity; Ronald F. E. WeissmanCaritas/Controriforma : The Changing Role of a Confraternity's Ritual; Jean S. WeiszThe Passion of Christ in the Art, Theater, and Penitential Rituals of the Roman Confraternity of the Gonfalone; Barbara WischIndexPlates