Spiritual Kinship as Social Practice: Godparenthood and Adoption in the Early Middle Ages

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University of Delaware Press, 2000 - Всего страниц: 362
"This book deals with kinship in the early Middle Ages. Most scholars agree in theory that kinship is not a biological fact but a universally deployable system for structuring social relations. In empirical practice, however, research on kinship has focused almost exclusively on descent and alliance. This book addresses kinship beyond these concepts. It is a study of godparenthood and adoption in Frankish society at the time when Roman adoption was disappearing and godparenthood was being invented as a social tool."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
 

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Examining Sponsorship and Adoption in the Realm of Kinship Studies
15
Kinship Strategies The Example of King Gunthchramn
46
Adoption Contextualized Legal Culture
53
King Gunthchramn Interventions in Kinship
65
Counterstrategies Gunthchramns Nephews and Their Nobles
90
A Failed Attempt
109
Practices in Antiquity
115
The Rule of the Merovingians and the Power of the Bishops
139
Sponsorship Bonds 1 Bishops and Kings
145
Sponsorship Bonds 2 Nobles and Bishops Kings and Outsiders
171
An Exemplary Case Gunthchramn as Chlothars Godfather
181
Sponsorship as a Social Practice
210
Notes
239
Bibliography
328
Index
357
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Dr. Bernhard Jussen has been a Research Fellow at the Max-Planck-Institute for History in Gottingen (Germany) since 1989.

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