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

Confraternities were the most common form of organized religious life in medieval and early modern Europe. They were at once the lay face of the church, the spiritual heart of civic government, and the social kin who claimed the allegiance of peers and the obedience of subordinates. In this 1999 col...

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Contributors: Terpstra, Nicholas 1956- (Editor)
Format: Electronic Book
Language:English
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Published: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2000.
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Reviews:The politics of ritual kinship. Confraternities and social order in early modern Italy. Edited by Nicholas Terpstra. (Cambridge Studies in Italian History and Culture.) Pp. xi+319. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999 (2000). £75. 0 521 62185 2 (2001) (Wurthmann, William B.)
[Rezension von: Terpstra, Nicholas, The Politics of Ritual Kinship: Confraternities and Social Order in Early Modern Italy] (2001) (D'Andrea, David)
Series/Journal:Cambridge studies in Italian history and culture
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Italy / Brotherhood / Social order / History 1400-1600
Further subjects:B Collection of essays
B Italy Social conditions 1268-1559
B Confraternities ; Social aspects ; Italy ; History
B Confraternities Social aspects (Italy) History
B Confraternities Social aspects Italy History
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Print version: 9780521621854
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Summary:Confraternities were the most common form of organized religious life in medieval and early modern Europe. They were at once the lay face of the church, the spiritual heart of civic government, and the social kin who claimed the allegiance of peers and the obedience of subordinates. In this 1999 collection, fifteen scholars examine the development of confraternities in Italy, where they emerged first and had the greatest impact. Individual essays explore a common set of themes across Italy from the twelfth to the eighteenth centuries: the ubiquity of confraternities, social construction, and devotional ethos; their ritual culture and civic religion; their antagonistic and collaborative relations with both civic and ecclesiastical authorities; and their role in social welfare and social control of marginal groups. The authors demonstrate how the ritual kinship expressed in confraternities emerged in the Middle Ages and became a powerful force in 'civilizing' early modern Italian society.
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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ISBN:0511523491
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511523496