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Spiritual kinship in Europe, 1500-1900 / edited by Guido Alfani, Assistant Professor of Economic History, Bocconi University, Milan, Italy and Vincent Gourdon, Researcher, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris, France.

Contributor(s): Alfani, Guido, 1976- | Gourdon, Vincent
Material type: TextTextPublisher: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012Description: xii, 324 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780230362215 (hardback); 0230362214 (hardback)Subject(s): Sponsors -- Europe -- History | Kinship -- Religious aspects -- Christianity | Kinship -- Europe -- History | Christianity -- Social aspects -- Europe -- HistoryDDC classification: 274 LOC classification: BV1478 | .S75 2012Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 292-312) and index.
Contents:
Immigrants and formalisation of social ties in Early Modern Italy : Ivrea in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries / Guido Alfani -- Ecclesiastical godparenthood in Early Modern Murcia / Antonio Irigoyen López -- Godparenthood and social networks in an Italian rural community : Nonantola in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries / Guido Alfani and Cristina Munno -- Godparenthood and social relationships in France under the Ancien Régime : Lyons as a case study / Étienne Couriol -- What's in a name? : Choosing kin godparents in nineteenth-century Paris / Vincent Gourdon -- Spiritual kinship, political mobilisation and social cooperation : a Swiss Alpine valley in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries / Sandro Guzzi-Heeb -- Kin, neighbours or prominent persons? : Godparenthood in a Finnish rural community in the first half of the eighteenth century / Kari-Matti Piilahti -- Who wants to be a godparent? : Baptisms in a Lutheran Church in Paris, 1755-1804 / Tom Ericsson -- Godparenthood in the Russian Orthodox tradition : custom versus the law / Marianna G. Muravyeva -- The French in Gold Rush San Francisco and spiritual kinship / Annick Foucrier.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 292-312) and index.

Immigrants and formalisation of social ties in Early Modern Italy : Ivrea in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries / Guido Alfani -- Ecclesiastical godparenthood in Early Modern Murcia / Antonio Irigoyen López -- Godparenthood and social networks in an Italian rural community : Nonantola in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries / Guido Alfani and Cristina Munno -- Godparenthood and social relationships in France under the Ancien Régime : Lyons as a case study / Étienne Couriol -- What's in a name? : Choosing kin godparents in nineteenth-century Paris / Vincent Gourdon -- Spiritual kinship, political mobilisation and social cooperation : a Swiss Alpine valley in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries / Sandro Guzzi-Heeb -- Kin, neighbours or prominent persons? : Godparenthood in a Finnish rural community in the first half of the eighteenth century / Kari-Matti Piilahti -- Who wants to be a godparent? : Baptisms in a Lutheran Church in Paris, 1755-1804 / Tom Ericsson -- Godparenthood in the Russian Orthodox tradition : custom versus the law / Marianna G. Muravyeva -- The French in Gold Rush San Francisco and spiritual kinship / Annick Foucrier.

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