Spiritual Kinship in Europe, 1500-1900

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Spiritual kinship and godparenthood: an introduction

   1. Spiritual kinship and godparenthood: an introduction

      • Guido Alfani, Vincent Gourdon

      Pages 1-43

3. The Early Modern times

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 45-45

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   2. Immigrants and formalisation of social ties in Early Modern Italy: Ivrea in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries

      • Guido Alfani

      Pages 47-73

   3. Ecclesiastical godparenthood in Early Modern Murcia

      • Antonio Irigoyen López

      Pages 74-95

   4. Godparenthood and social networks in an Italian rural community: Nonantola in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries

      • Guido Alfani, Cristina Munno

      Pages 96-123

   5. Godparenthood and social relationships in France under the Ancien Régime: Lyons as a case study

      • Étienne Couriol

      Pages 124-151

4. Godparenthood from the early eighteenth century to the Age of Industrialisation

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 153-153

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   2. What’s in a name? Choosing kin godparents in nineteenth-century Paris

      • Vincent Gourdon

      Pages 155-182

   3. Spiritual kinship, political mobilisation and social cooperation: a Swiss Alpine valley in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries

      • Sandro Guzzi-Heeb

      Pages 183-203

5. Reformed godparenthood

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 205-205

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   2. Kin, neighbours or prominent persons? Godparenthood in a Finnish rural community in the first half of the eighteenth century

      • Kari-Matti Piilahti

      Pages 207-226

   3. Who wants to be a godparent? Baptisms in a Lutheran Church in Paris, 1755–1804

      • Tom Ericsson

      Pages 227-243

6. Eastern Europe and Europeans abroad

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 245-245

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   2. Godparenthood in the Russian Orthodox tradition: custom versus the law

      • Marianna G. Muravyeva

      Pages 247-274

   3. The French in Gold Rush San Francisco and spiritual kinship

      • Annick Foucrier

      Pages 275-291

7. Back Matter

   Pages 292-324

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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.

• early modern period
• eighteenth century
• Europe
• France
• Martin Luther
• Middle Ages
• Protest
• reform
• Russia

• Economic History, Bocconi University, Milan, Italy

  Guido Alfani

• Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris, France

  Vincent Gourdon

ETIENNE COURIOLE University of Lyons3 (LAHRA) and University of Toulouse2 (FRAMESPA), Lyons and Toulouse, France TOM ERICSSON Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden ANNICK FOUCRIER University of Paris-I, Paris, France SANDRO GUZZI University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland ANTONIO IRIGOYEN University of Murcia, Murcia, Spain CRISTINA MUNNO Venice University, Venice, Italy MARIANNA MURAVYEVA Herzen State Padagogical University, St Petersburg, Russia KARI-MATTI PIILAHTI University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

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