Politics of ritual kinship, the: confraternities and social order in early modern italy
Éditeur :
Cambridge University Press
ISBN :
9780521038003
Date de publication :
19 juil. 2007
Dimensions :
22,8 x 15,1 x 1,8 cm
Poids :
497 g
Format :
Trade paperback (US)
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
An examination of how lay religious confraternities in Italy shaped early ritual kinship. This 1999 book discusses 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.