Chapter 1 Spiritual kinship and godparenthood: an introduction

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

Chapter 3 Ecclesiastical godparenthood in Early Modern Murcia

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

Chapter 6 What’s in a name? Choosing kin godparents in nineteenth-century Paris

Chapter 7 Spiritual kinship, political mobilisation and social cooperation: a Swiss Alpine valley in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries

Chapter 8 Kin, neighbours or prominent persons? Godparenthood in a Finnish rural community in the first half of the eighteenth century

Chapter 9 Who wants to be a godparent? Baptisms in a Lutheran Church in Paris, 1755–1804

Chapter 10 Godparenthood in the Russian Orthodox tradition: custom versus the law

Chapter 11 The French in Gold Rush San Francisco and spiritual kinship