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1. "Quant'è bella giovinezza: Youth and the Medici in Later Quattrocento Florence."

   10 Jun 2026 | Article | Contributor(s):

   By Domenico Angelo Zanrè

   https://hsscommons.ca/en/publications/1087/?v=1

2. A Charitable 'Façade'? The Sculptural Decoration of the Scuola Grande di San Marco

   10 Jun 2026 | Article | Contributor(s):

   By Lorenzo G. Buonanno

   The meetinghouse of the Scuola Grande di San Marco possessed the most extravagant façade of any confraternity in Venice. At the same time, however, its sculptural decoration contained more...

   https://hsscommons.ca/en/publications/1224/?v=1

3. A Digital Archive of the Architecture of Charity: Venice, c.1100–1797

   10 Jun 2026 | Article | Contributor(s):

   By Raymond Lifchez, Luca Trolese

   The Architectural Visual Resources Library of the Department of Architecture, College of Environmental Design, University of California Berkeley, offers to scholars and students of Venetian social...

   https://hsscommons.ca/en/publications/1175/?v=1

4. A Major Confraternity Commission in Quito, Ecuador: the Church of El Sagrario

   10 Jun 2026 | Article | Contributor(s):

   By Susan V. Webster

   https://hsscommons.ca/en/publications/1064/?v=1

5. An Unusual Privilege of Early Modern Roman Confraternities

   10 Jun 2026 | Article | Contributor(s):

   By Peter Blastenbrei

   https://hsscommons.ca/en/publications/1125/?v=1

6. Appendix: The Prologue from the Original Latin Statute of the Scuola Grande di Santa Maria della Carità

   10 Jun 2026 | Article | Contributor(s):

   By Abigail Firey

   https://hsscommons.ca/en/publications/1233/?v=1

7. Architecture and Charity. Paradoxes and Conflicts in the Construction of the Scuola Grande di San Rocco in Venice (1517–1560)

   10 Jun 2026 | Article | Contributor(s):

   By Gianmario Guidarelli

   This article examines the role of architectural patronage at the Scuola Grande di San Rocco and explores the relationship between building and charity. The San Rocco confraternity hall underwent...

   https://hsscommons.ca/en/publications/1225/?v=1

8. Assistance to the Poor on a Royal Model: The Example of the Misericórdias in the Portuguese Empire from the Sixteenth to the Eighteenth Century

   10 Jun 2026 | Article | Contributor(s):

   By Isabel dos Guimarães Sá

   https://hsscommons.ca/en/publications/1086/?v=1

9. Belief, Devotion, and Memory in Early Modern Italian Confraternities

   10 Jun 2026 | Article | Contributor(s):

   By Lance Lazar

   https://hsscommons.ca/en/publications/1117/?v=1

10. Benvenuto Cellini’s Bid for Membership in the Florentine Confraternity of San Giovanni Battista detta dello Scalzo

    10 Jun 2026 | Article | Contributor(s):

    By Douglas N. Dow

    An unpublished notice in the records of the confraternity of San Giovanni Battista detta dello Scalzo reveals that Benvenuto Cellini initiated a bid for membership in the company in 1557. Although...

    https://hsscommons.ca/en/publications/1206/?v=1

11. Between Piety and Sin: Zaragoza's Confraternity of San Roque, Syphilis, and Sodomy

    10 Jun 2026 | Article | Contributor(s):

    By Cristian Berco

    https://hsscommons.ca/en/publications/1077/?v=1

12. Beyond the Social and the Spiritual: Redefining the Urban Confraternities of Late Medieval Anatolia

    10 Jun 2026 | Article | Contributor(s):

    By Rachel Goshgarian

    This dissertation is the first comprehensive study of the phenomenon of the urban confraternity in thirteenth and fourteenth-century Anatolia. Urban confraternities in late medieval Anatolia...

    https://hsscommons.ca/en/publications/1218/?v=1

13. Bit Part or Leading Role? Confraternal Drama Studies in the Academy

    10 Jun 2026 | Article | Contributor(s):

    By Nerida Newbigin

    https://hsscommons.ca/en/publications/1109/?v=1

14. Black Confraternity Members Performing Afro-Christian Identity in a Renaissance Festival in Mexico City in 1539

    10 Jun 2026 | Article | Contributor(s):

    By Miguel A. Valerio

    In February 1539, Mexico City was the stage of a lavish two-day festival meant to commemorate the Truce of Nice, signed the year before between Emperor Charles V and King Francis I of France at...

    https://hsscommons.ca/en/publications/1322/?v=1

15. Bolognese ‘Orations’ between Song and Silence: The Laude of the Confraternity of Santa Maria della Morte

    10 Jun 2026 | Article | Contributor(s):

    By Gioia Filocamo

    The flagellant confraternity of “Santa Maria della Morte” (Saint Mary of Death) in Bologna, established in 1336, was the first institution to systematically take care of the spiritual needs of...

    https://hsscommons.ca/en/publications/1286/?v=1

16. Bringing God to the People: Jesuit Confraternities in Italy in the Mid-Sixtreenth Century

    10 Jun 2026 | Article | Contributor(s):

    By Lance Lazar

    https://hsscommons.ca/en/publications/968/?v=1

17. Charity and Confessional Difference in Seventeenth-Century France: The Maison de Charité of Loudun, 1648-1685

    10 Jun 2026 | Article | Contributor(s):

    By Edwin Bezzina

    https://hsscommons.ca/en/publications/1060/?v=1

18. Charity for and by the Poor: Franciscan and Indigenous Confraternities in Mexico, 1526–1700

    10 Jun 2026 | Article | Contributor(s):

    By Laura Dierksmeier

    https://hsscommons.ca/en/publications/1289/?v=1

19. Charity, Poor Relief, and Politics in Renaissance Florence, Bologna and Milan. A Research Project

    10 Jun 2026 | Article | Contributor(s):

    By Nicholas Terpstra

    https://hsscommons.ca/en/publications/955/?v=1

20. Civic Christianity in Fifteenth-Century Treviso: The Confraternity and Hospital of Santa Maria dei Battuti

    10 Jun 2026 | Article | Contributor(s):

    By David D’Andrea

    https://hsscommons.ca/en/publications/1043/?v=1