| The Politics of Ritual Kinship: Confraternities and Social Order in Early Modern Italy Contributor(s): Terpstra, Nicholas (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0521621852 ISBN-13: 9780521621854 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $139.65 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: November 1999 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Europe - Italy - History | Social History |
| Dewey: 267.182 |
| LCCN: 98-43693 |
| Series: Cambridge Studies in Italian History and Culture |
| Physical Information: 0.88" H x 6" W x 9" (1.45 lbs) 332 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Italy - Chronological Period - Modern |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |