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1. An Unusual Privilege of Early Modern Roman Confraternities

   15 Jul 2025 | Article | Contributor(s):

   By Peter Blastenbrei

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

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

   15 Jul 2025 | Article | Contributor(s):

   By Abigail Firey

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

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

   15 Jul 2025 | 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

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

   15 Jul 2025 | Article | Contributor(s):

   By Isabel dos Guimarães Sá

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

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

   15 Jul 2025 | Article | Contributor(s):

   By Lance Lazar

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

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

   15 Jul 2025 | 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   An unpublished notice in the records of the confraternity of San Giovanni Battista detta dello Scalzo reveals that Benvenuto Cellini initiated a bid for membership in the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

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

   15 Jul 2025 | Article | Contributor(s):

   By Cristian Berco

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

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

   15 Jul 2025 | 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

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

   15 Jul 2025 | Article | Contributor(s):

   By Nerida Newbigin

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

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

    15 Jul 2025 | 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

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

    15 Jul 2025 | 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

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

    15 Jul 2025 | Article | Contributor(s):

    By Lance Lazar

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

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

    15 Jul 2025 | Article | Contributor(s):

    By Edwin Bezzina

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

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

    15 Jul 2025 | Article | Contributor(s):

    By Laura Dierksmeier

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

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

    15 Jul 2025 | Article | Contributor(s):

    By Nicholas Terpstra

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

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

    15 Jul 2025 | Article | Contributor(s):

    By David D’Andrea

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

17. Conceptual and Material Culture in the Service of Confraternities in Milan

    15 Jul 2025 | Article | Contributor(s):

    By Starleen K. Meyer

    https://hsscommons.ca/en/publications/1182/?v=1

18. Confraternal Gleanings from Post-Tridentine Piacenza: Bishop Paolo Burali d’Arezzo and the Confraternity of the Most Holy Sacrament

    15 Jul 2025 | 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

19. Confraternal Organisation in Early Modern Malta

    15 Jul 2025 | 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

20. Confraternal Self-Imaging in Marian Art at the Museo del Bigallo in Florence

    15 Jul 2025 | Article | Contributor(s):

    By William R. Levin

    https://hsscommons.ca/en/publications/1041/?v=1