Politics of ritual kinship, the: confraternities and social order in early modern italy
Éditeur :
Cambridge University Press
ISBN :
9780521621854
Date de publication :
28 nov. 1999
Dimensions :
22,9 x 15,2 x 2,2 cm
Poids :
660 g
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.