Spiritual kinship in Europe, 1500-1900

The authors in this volume analyze spiritual kinship in Europe from the end of the Middle Ages to the Industrial Age. Uniquely comparing Catholic, Protestant and Orthodox views and practices, the chapters look at changes in theological thought over time as well as in social customs related to spiritual kinship, including godparenthood. GUIDO ALFANI Assistant Professor at Bocconi University, Italy, and Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Glasgow, UK. He is chief editor of the journal 'Popolazione e Storia'. An economic and social historian, and an historical demographer, he is an expert of godparenthood in medieval and early modern Europe; on this topic he published 'Fathers and Godfathers: Spiritual Kinship in Early Modern Italy' (2009). VINCENT GOURDON An historian of the family and an historical demographer. Researcher at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France, he is also chief editor of the journal 'Annales de Démographie Historique'. He is an expert of the history of baptism and godparenthood in early modern and modern Europe; on this topic he has published '('with Guido Alfani and Philippe Castagnetti Baptiser),' Pratique sacramentelle, pratique sociale XVIe-XXe siècles' (2009). INDICE: List of Figures and Tables - Contributors - Spiritual Kinship and Godparenthood: an Introduction; 'G.Alfani' & 'V.Gourdon' - PART I: THE EARLY MODERN PERIOD - Immigrants and Formalisation of Social Ties in Early Modern Italy; 'G.Alfani' - Ecclesiastical Godparenthood in Early Modern Murcia;' A.Irigoyen' - Godparenthood and Social Networks in an Italian Rural Community: Nonantola, Sixteenth-Seventeenth Centuries; 'G.Alfani' & 'C.Munno' - Godparenthood and Social Relationships in France under the Old Regime: Lyons as a Case Study;' E.Couriol' - PART II: GODPARENTHOOD FROM THE EARLY EIGHTEENTH CENTURY TO THEAGE OF INDUSTRIALIZATION - What's in a Name? Choosing Kin Godparents in Nineteenth Century Paris; 'V.Gourdon' - Spiritual Kinship, Political Mobilization and Social Cooperation: a Swiss Alpine valley in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries; 'S.Guzzi' - PART III: REFORMED GODPARENTHOOD - Kin, Neighbours or Prominent Persons? Godparenthood in a Finnish Rural Community in the First Halfof the Eighteenth Century; 'K-M.Piilahti' - Who Wants to be a Godparent? Baptisms in a Lutheran Church in Paris, 1755-1804; 'T.Ericsson' - PART IV: EASTERNEUROPE AND EUROPEANS ABROAD - Godparenthood in the Russian Orthodox Tradition: Custom against the Law;' M.Muravyeva - 'The French in Gold Rush San Francisco and Spiritual Kinship; 'A.Foucrier - 'Notes - Bibliography -

• ISBN: 978-0-230-36221-5
• Editorial: Palgrave MacM
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 352
• Fecha Publicación: 23/12/2011
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés