Istanze universaliste e particolarismo corporativo nelle confraternite dell'età moderna

[Autom. eng. transl.] The whole history of the confraternity universe is traversed by the underground dialectic between the drive for mimetic adaptation to the boundary lines that distinguished and separated the various socio-professional and residential groups, within the polycentric division typical of a cetual "constitution" corporative, on the one hand, and on the other, the opposite inclination to reabsorb the differences of every single part of the social totality into a universalist opening supported by the ideal typical implications of Christian ethics, radicalized in a pacifying and charitable sense. A significant emergency of this oscillation between two competitive perspectives is represented by the impact of the reforming strategies of the first and full sixteenth century on the traditional structure of the confraternity world. His legacies resurface in a striking way in the Muratorian and Jansenist proposal to demolish the confraternity barriers adopted by eighteenth-century reformism.