The article analyzes some of the main 'family rituals' common in Northern Italian societies, covering the Late Medieval and Early Modern period. In particular, it focuses on the main birth ritual -baptism- and on the ties of spiritual kinship and godparenthood that it created, and on marriage. The articles makes use of recent research to analyze how rituals were used to create formal social connections, well beyond ties of kinship or of marriage affinity, and how this shaped social networks.
Family rituals in Northern Italy (Fifteenth to Seventeenth Centuries)
ALFANI, GUIDO
2013
Abstract
The article analyzes some of the main 'family rituals' common in Northern Italian societies, covering the Late Medieval and Early Modern period. In particular, it focuses on the main birth ritual -baptism- and on the ties of spiritual kinship and godparenthood that it created, and on marriage. The articles makes use of recent research to analyze how rituals were used to create formal social connections, well beyond ties of kinship or of marriage affinity, and how this shaped social networks.
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