This workshop seeks to consider confraternities across the Iberian world as cultural hubs where spirituality, performance, and negotiation intersected. We are particularly interested in how literary and devotional creations may have circulated through confraternal networks, shaping and being shaped by their religious and social dynamics. Were confraternities spaces of transcultural dialogue that fostered solidarity, exchange, or even tension among different groups? Can we trace connections across the Atlantic that reveal shared repertoires or devotional models? How might records of musical, theatrical, and artisanal confraternities— those of actors, painters, or musicians—help us to understand the participation, collaboration, or exclusion of racialised individuals within the broader cultural economy of early modern Iberia?.
