The Politics of Ritual Kinship: Confraternities and Social Order in Early Modern Italy (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780521621854)

Between the twelfth and the eighteenth centuries Italians frequently joined "confraternities" that made them symbolic brothers and sisters to one another. These kin groups launched extensive charitable programs, directed civic and religious rituals, and socialized members in class and gender roles. These essays examine how medieval religious and political values shaped early ritual kinship, how sixteenth-century social change and religious reform transformed confraternities, and how these altered groups became key agents in achieving the more rigid social order of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

Author: Nicholas Terpstra
ISBN-10: 0521621852
ISBN-13: 9780521621854
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 11/28/1999
Pages: 332
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.45lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.88d