Spiritual Kinship in Europe, 1500–1900

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Spiritual kinship and godparenthood: an introduction....Pages 1-43
Front Matter....Pages 45-45
Immigrants and formalisation of social ties in Early Modern Italy: Ivrea in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries....Pages 47-73
Ecclesiastical godparenthood in Early Modern Murcia....Pages 74-95
Godparenthood and social networks in an Italian rural community: Nonantola in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries....Pages 96-123
Godparenthood and social relationships in France under the Ancien Régime: Lyons as a case study....Pages 124-151
Front Matter....Pages 153-153
What’s in a name? Choosing kin godparents in nineteenth-century Paris....Pages 155-182
Spiritual kinship, political mobilisation and social cooperation: a Swiss Alpine valley in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries....Pages 183-203
Front Matter....Pages 205-205
Kin, neighbours or prominent persons? Godparenthood in a Finnish rural community in the first half of the eighteenth century....Pages 207-226
Who wants to be a godparent? Baptisms in a Lutheran Church in Paris, 1755–1804....Pages 227-243
Front Matter....Pages 245-245
Godparenthood in the Russian Orthodox tradition: custom versus the law....Pages 247-274
The French in Gold Rush San Francisco and spiritual kinship....Pages 275-291
Back Matter....Pages 292-324