Spiritual Kinship As Social Practice
Subtitle: Godparenthood and Adoption in the Early Middle Ages (The University of Delaware Press Series, the Family in Interdisciplinary Perspective)
Edition: Rev Exp edition
Publisher: University of Delaware Press
Published: June 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 362
ISBN-13: 9780874136326
Subjects: Family & Relationships; Genealogy, heraldry, names and honours; c 500 CE to c 1000 CE; Ancient Rome - History; Social Institutions; Sociology; Ancient Rome; Sociology - Marriage & Family; Alternative Family; Ancient - Rome; Spirituality - General; Adoption; Europe; History; Medieval, 500-1500; Social history; Sponsors; To 1500
Description: "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.