Abstract
The following article analyses episodes of blood devotion in two fourteenth-century laudari written by the members of the confraternity of the Disciplinati di Santo Stefano in Assisi, otherwise known as the ‘Frondini’ and ‘Illuminati’ laudari. Through the analysis of a selection of laude celebrating Good Friday and Corpus Domini, this article explores how the holy blood of Christ is adored, poured, and metaphorically “consumed” in the narratives adopted by the flagellant confraternity. In doing so, the article also highlights the relationship with other cultural trends active in medieval Italy, in particular hagiographical episodes of bloodshed and blood consumption, and the iconographical tradition of the crocifissi dolorosi.
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