Snag Your Copy The Politics Of Ritual Kinship: Confraternities And Social Order In Early Modern Italy Written And Illustrated By Nicholas Terpstra Issued As Manuscript

had to read this for a required course on a topic I was uninterested in, with a professor I didn't like, It was probably a fine book, I can't

remember but a couple of the essays, 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 gender roles, These essays examine how medieval religious and political values shaped early ritual kinship, how sixteenthcentury 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.
Nicholas Terpstra University of Toronto is author of Lay Confraternities and Civic Religion in Renaissance Bologna, which won the Howard K, Marraro Prize of the Society for Italian Historical Studies, and the editor of The Politics of Ritual Kinship: Confraternities and Social Order in Early Modern Italy, .