Ritual in Early Modern Europe (New Approaches to European History)
Edition: 2 edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: October 7, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 332
ISBN-13: 9780521841535
Subjects: Religious rites & ceremonies; History: World; Europe - General; History; History - General History; Ritualism; Europe; Modern - General; Customs & Traditions; History / Europe / General; Church history; Rites and ceremonies; Ritual
First sentence: In 1393 an ambitious, fledgling businessman, a twenty-two-year-old Florentine named Giovanni Morelli, began to write a "memory book," a combined family history and personal diary that he kept for most of the rest of his life.