This article traces the foundation and development of confraternities in the city of Modena and identifies key events that influenced how lay associations determined the social, spiritual, and cultural responsibilities outlined in their statutes. Over time, how­ever, the confraternities underwent major changes to their corpo­rate identity and subsequently adapted their statutes to reflect those changes. The article also charts the documentary lineage of the regu­lations that governed Modena’s confraternities, revealing the com­plexity of both internal and external influences that affected the ways in which the societies designed, updated, and enforced their statutes.

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• Kalak, M. A., (2025), "The Confraternities of Modena between the Middle Ages and Renaissance. Rules, Social Profiles and Spirituality", HSSCommons: (DOI: )

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Original publication: Kalak, Matteo Al. “The Confraternities of Modena between the Middle Ages and Renaissance. Rules, Social Profiles and Spirituality.” Confraternitas 29 (2): 2019. 4-21. DOI: . This material has been re-published in an unmodified form on the Canadian HSS Commons with the permission of Iter Canada / Confraternitas. Copyright © the author(s). Their work is distributed by Confraternitas under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. For details, see https://creativecommons.org/licenses/.