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This text examines the development of confraternities in Italy. It demonstrates how the ritual kinship expressed in confraternities emerged in the Middle Ages and became a powerful force in civilizing early modern Italian society.Terpstra, Nicholas is the author of 'Politics of Ritual Kinship Confraternities and Social Order in Early Modern Italy', published 2008 under ISBN 9780521038003 and ISBN 0521038006.
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