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An Unusual Privilege of Early Modern Roman Confraternities
10 May 2026 | Article | Contributor(s):
By Peter Blastenbrei
https://hsscommons.ca/en/publications/1125/?v=1
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Appendix: The Prologue from the Original Latin Statute of the Scuola Grande di Santa Maria della Carità
10 May 2026 | Article | Contributor(s):
By Abigail Firey
https://hsscommons.ca/en/publications/1233/?v=1
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Architecture and Charity. Paradoxes and Conflicts in the Construction of the Scuola Grande di San Rocco in Venice (1517–1560)
10 May 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
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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 May 2026 | Article | Contributor(s):
By Isabel dos Guimarães Sá
https://hsscommons.ca/en/publications/1086/?v=1
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Belief, Devotion, and Memory in Early Modern Italian Confraternities
10 May 2026 | Article | Contributor(s):
By Lance Lazar
https://hsscommons.ca/en/publications/1117/?v=1
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Benvenuto Cellini’s Bid for Membership in the Florentine Confraternity of San Giovanni Battista detta dello Scalzo
10 May 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An unpublished notice in the records of the confraternity of San Giovanni Battista detta dello Scalzo reveals that Benvenuto Cellini initiated a bid for membership in the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
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Between Piety and Sin: Zaragoza's Confraternity of San Roque, Syphilis, and Sodomy
10 May 2026 | Article | Contributor(s):
By Cristian Berco
https://hsscommons.ca/en/publications/1077/?v=1
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Beyond the Social and the Spiritual: Redefining the Urban Confraternities of Late Medieval Anatolia
10 May 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
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Bit Part or Leading Role? Confraternal Drama Studies in the Academy
10 May 2026 | Article | Contributor(s):
By Nerida Newbigin
https://hsscommons.ca/en/publications/1109/?v=1
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Black Confraternity Members Performing Afro-Christian Identity in a Renaissance Festival in Mexico City in 1539
10 May 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
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Bolognese ‘Orations’ between Song and Silence: The Laude of the Confraternity of Santa Maria della Morte
10 May 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
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Bringing God to the People: Jesuit Confraternities in Italy in the Mid-Sixtreenth Century
10 May 2026 | Article | Contributor(s):
By Lance Lazar
https://hsscommons.ca/en/publications/968/?v=1
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Charity and Confessional Difference in Seventeenth-Century France: The Maison de Charité of Loudun, 1648-1685
10 May 2026 | Article | Contributor(s):
By Edwin Bezzina
https://hsscommons.ca/en/publications/1060/?v=1
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Charity for and by the Poor: Franciscan and Indigenous Confraternities in Mexico, 1526–1700
10 May 2026 | Article | Contributor(s):
By Laura Dierksmeier
https://hsscommons.ca/en/publications/1289/?v=1
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Charity, Poor Relief, and Politics in Renaissance Florence, Bologna and Milan. A Research Project
10 May 2026 | Article | Contributor(s):
By Nicholas Terpstra
https://hsscommons.ca/en/publications/955/?v=1
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Civic Christianity in Fifteenth-Century Treviso: The Confraternity and Hospital of Santa Maria dei Battuti
10 May 2026 | Article | Contributor(s):
By David D’Andrea
https://hsscommons.ca/en/publications/1043/?v=1
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Conceptual and Material Culture in the Service of Confraternities in Milan
10 May 2026 | Article | Contributor(s):
By Starleen K. Meyer
https://hsscommons.ca/en/publications/1182/?v=1
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Confraternal Gleanings from Post-Tridentine Piacenza: Bishop Paolo Burali d’Arezzo and the Confraternity of the Most Holy Sacrament
10 May 2026 | Article | Contributor(s):
By Serena Quagliaroli
This article focuses on the situation in the diocese of Piacenza during the episcopate of Paolo Burali d’Arezzo (r. 1568–1576) by placing his work within the post-Tridentine context. One of the...
https://hsscommons.ca/en/publications/1287/?v=1
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Confraternal Organisation in Early Modern Malta
10 May 2026 | Article | Contributor(s):
By Frans Ciappara
This article analyses how Maltese confraternities were set up, their composition and their internal organization. Most were inclusive and comprised the adult population of the parish, both males...
https://hsscommons.ca/en/publications/1321/?v=1
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Confraternal Self-Imaging in Marian Art at the Museo del Bigallo in Florence
10 May 2026 | Article | Contributor(s):
By William R. Levin
https://hsscommons.ca/en/publications/1041/?v=1
