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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Cambridge Univ. Press 2000
History 1400-1600
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