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Visions of Kinship in Medieval Europe (Hardcover)
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Visions of Kinship in Medieval Europe (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Studies in Medieval European History
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What meaning did human kinship possess in a world regulated by
Biblical time, committed to the primacy of spiritual relationships,
and bound by the sinews of divine love? In the process of exploring
this question, Hans Hummer offers a searching re-examination of
kinship in Europe between late Roman times and the high middle
ages, the period bridging Europe's primitive past and its modern
future. Visions of Kinship in Medieval Europe critiques the
modernist and Western bio-genealogical and functionalist
assumptions that have shaped kinship studies since their inception
in the nineteenth century, when Biblical time collapsed and kinship
became a signifier of the essential secularity of history and a
method for conceptualizing a deep prehistory guided by autogenous
human impulses. Hummer argues that this understanding of kinship is
fundamentally antagonistic to medieval sentiments and is
responsible for the frustrations researchers have encountered as
they have tried to identify the famously elusive kin groups of
medieval Europe. He delineates an alternative ethnographic approach
inspired by recent anthropological work that privileges indigenous
expressions of kinship and the interpretive potential of native
ontologies. This study reveals that kinship in the middle ages was
not biological, primitive, or a regulator of social mechanisms; nor
was it traceable by bio-genealogical connections. In the Middle
Ages, kinship signified a sociality that flowed from convictions
about the divine source of all things and which wove together
families, institutions, and divinities into an expansive
eschatological vision animated by 'the most righteous principle of
love'.
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