Fathers and godfathers
Subtitle: spiritual kinship in early-modern Italy
By: Guido Alfani.
Series: Catholic christendom, 1300-1700
Publisher: Ashgate Pub. Ltd.
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Aldershot, Hants, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780754667377
Subjects: Sponsors -- Italy -- History; Kinship -- Religious aspects -- Christianity; Kinship -- Italy -- History; Italy -- Social conditions
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Godparenthood and spiritual kinship : the origins of a distinctive social institution; title: Godparents and comparison between the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries : a wide variety of local customs; title: Godparenthood, literature, and family records from perception to interpretation; title: Godparenthood in the 16th century from the Reformation to the Council of Trent; title: The application of the decrees of the Council : resistance and compromise : three lines of enquiry; title: The social impact of the reform; title: Newborn babies and spiritual kinship : equal opportunities or discrimination; title: Godfathers and godmothers : the case of Ivrea; title: Godparenthood as an instrument of social alliance; title: Godparenthood from the seventeenth century to the present day : a history of decline; title: Appendix: Literature on godparenthood.