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The Politics of Ritual Kinship: Confraternities and Social Order in Early Modern Italy (Cambridge Studies in Italian History and Culture) - Softcover

Terpstra, Nicholas

 
9780521038003: The Politics of Ritual Kinship: Confraternities and Social Order in Early Modern Italy (Cambridge Studies in Italian History and Culture)

Synopsis

An edited 1999 collection examining the way confraternities shaped society in Renaissance and early modern Italy.

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Review

'... breathtaking in the range of subjects and timescale considered ... a welcome addition to the growing body of scholarship on Italian confraternities'. William B. Wurthmann, Journal of Ecclesiastical History

'... the contributors enrich our understanding of the complex nature of lay charitable and pious activities and identities on the brink of the modern age.' Jennifer D. Selwyn, Archivum Historicum

Book Description

An examination of how lay religious confraternities in Italy shaped early ritual kinship. This 1999 book discusses 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.

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