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Spiritual kinship as social practice : godparenthood and adoption in the early Middle Ages

Title
Spiritual kinship as social practice : godparenthood and adoption in the early Middle Ages / Bernhard Jussen ; translated by Pamela Selwyn.
Author
Jussen, Bernhard.
Publication
Newark, Del. : University of Delaware Press ; London ; Cranbury, NJ : Associated University Presses, [2000], ©2000.
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362 pages; 24 cm.
Summary
"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.
Series Statement
The University of Delaware Press series, The family in interdisciplinary perspective
Uniform Title
  • Patentschaft und Adoption im frühen Mittelalter. English
  • University of Delaware Press series, The family in interdisciplinary perspective.
Alternative Title
Patentschaft und Adoption im frühen Mittelalter.
Subject
  • Sponsors > Europe > History
  • Social history > Medieval, 500-1500
  • Adoption > Europe > History > To 1500
  • Kinship > Europe > History > To 1500
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 328-356) and index.
Contents
1. Examining Sponsorship and Adoption in the Realm of Kinship Studies -- 2. Kinship Strategies: The Example of King Gunthchramn -- 3. Adoption Contextualized: Legal Culture -- 4. King Gunthchramn: Interventions in Kinship -- 5. Counterstrategies: Gunthchramn's Nephews and Their Nobles -- 6. A Failed Attempt -- 7. Practices in Antiquity -- 8. The Rule of the Merovingians and the Power of the Bishops -- 9. Sponsorship Bonds (1): Bishops and Kings -- 10. Sponsorship Bonds (2): Nobles and Bishops, Kings and Outsiders -- 11. An Exemplary Case: Gunthchramn as Chlothar's Godfather -- 12. Sponsorship as a Social Practice.
ISBN
0874136326 (alk. paper)
LCCN
99041732
OCLC
  • 42072149
  • ocm42072149
  • SCSB-3899967
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Columbia University Libraries