The Politics of Ritual Kinship
Subtitle: Confraternities and Social Order in Early Modern Italy (Cambridge Studies in Italian History and Culture)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: July 23, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 331
ISBN-13: 9780521038003
Subjects: Christian communities & monasticism; European history: c 1500 to c 1750; European history: c 500 to c 1500; Roman Catholicism, Roman Catholic Church; c 1000 CE to c 1500; c 1500 to c 1600; c 1600 to c 1700; History; History - General History; History: World; Italy; Europe - Italy; Social History; Confraternities--Social aspects--Italy--Histo; Confraternities--Social aspects--Italy--History; History / Europe / General; History / Italy; History : Social History; Europe - General
First sentence: Since the 1960s lay confraternities in Italy, as elsewhere, have moved from the periphery of medieval religious history to a central place in mainstream studies of social-religious and cultural history up to the eighteenth century.