The politics of ritual kinship : confraternities and social order in early modern Italy

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Between the twelfth and the eighteenth centuries Italians frequently joined "confraternities" that made them symbolic brothers and sisters to one another. These kin groups launched extensive charitable programs, directed civic and religious rituals, and socialized members in class and gend...

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Other Authors: Terpstra, Nicholas
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University, 2000.
Series:Cambridge studies in Italian history and culture
Subjects:
Confraternities > Social aspects > Italy > History.
Confréries > Aspect social > Italie > Histoire.
Confraternities > Italy > History.
Italy > Social conditions > 18th century.
Italy.
Italy > Church history.
Italy > Social life and customs.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • The development of confraternity studies over the past thirty years / Christopher F. Black
  • Homosociality and civic (dis)order in late medieval Italian confraternities / Jennifer Fisk Rondeau
  • Confraternities and lay female religiosity in late medieval and renaissance Umbria / Giovanna Casagrande
  • The bounds of community: commune, parish, confraternity, and charity at the dawn of a new era in Cortona / Daniel Bornstein
  • Men and women in Roman confraternities in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries: roles, functions, expectations / Anna Esposito
  • The Medici and the youth Confraternity of the Purification of the Virgin, 1434-1506 / Lorenzo Polizzotto
  • In loco parentis: confraternities and abandoned children in Florence and Bologna / Nicholas Terpstra
  • The first Jesuit confraternities and marginalized groups in sixteenth-century Rome / Lance Lazar
  • Jewish confraternal piety in sixteenth-century Ferrara: continuity and change / Elliott Horowitz
  • The scuole piccole of Venice: formations and transformations / Richard S. MacKenney
  • Relaunching confraternities in the Tridentine era: shaping conscience and Christianizing society in Milan and Lombardy / Danilo Zardin
  • The development of Jesuit confraternity activity in the kingdom of Naples in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries / Mark A. Lewis
  • Corpus Domini: ritual metamorphoses and social changes in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Genoa / Claudio Bernardi
  • Faith's boundaries: ritual and territory in rural Piedmont in the early modern period / Angelo Torre
  • The suppression of confraternities in enlightenment Florence / Konrad Eisenbichler.

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