The Politics of Ritual Kinship
Subtitle: Confraternities and Social Order in Early Modern Italy (Cambridge Studies in Italian History and Culture)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: November 28, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 331
ISBN-13: 9780521621854
Subjects: Christianity; European history: c 1500 to c 1750; Social Theology; History: World; Roman Catholic Church; Religion; History - General History; Italy; Institutions & Organizations; Europe - Italy; Social History; Confraternities--Social aspects--Italy--History; History / Europe / General; Confraternities; Social aspects; Christianity - Catholic; History; Christianity - Catholicism
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.