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The Politics of Ritual Kinship: Confraternities and Social Order in Early Modern Italy

The Politics of Ritual Kinship: Confraternities and Social Order in Early Modern Italy

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Series: Cambridge Studies in Italian History and Culture

General World HistoryItalian History

ISBN10: 0521038006
ISBN13: 9780521038003
Publisher: Cambridge
Published: Jul 19 2007
Pages: 332
Weight: 1.07
Height: 0.74 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
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.

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