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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.
- Supplementary Content
- Table of Contents
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- Description
- 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
- 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
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries