Original publication: Smith, Chris. "“Francis and the Minstrels of God:” Performing the Music of the Medieval Italian Laudesi Companies." Confraternitas 4 (2): 2010. 7-12. DOI: 10.33137/confrat.v4i2.13486. 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 creativecommons.org/licenses/.