Kinship in Europe

Approaches to Long-Term Development (1300-1900)
1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-1-84545-720-4
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, 352 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 510 g

Since the publication of Philippe Ariès’s book, Centuries of Childhood, in the early 1960s, there has been great interest among historians in the history of the family and the household. A central aspect of the debate relates the story of the family to implicit notions of modernization, with the rise of the nuclear family in the West as part of its economic and political success. During the past decade, however, that synthesis has begun to break down. Historians have begun to examine kinship - the way individual families are connected to each other through marriage and descent - finding that during the most dynamic period in European industrial development, class formation, and state reorganization, Europe became a “kinship hot” society. The essays in this volume explore two major transitions in kinship patterns - at the end of the Middle Ages and at the end of the eighteenth century - in an effort to reset the agenda in family history.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sabean, David Warren

Teuscher, Simon

Mathieu, Jon

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Deutsche Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Glossary

Preface

Chapter 1. Kinship in Europe: A New Approach to Long-Term Development

David Warren Sabean and Simon Teuscher

Chapter 2. Bringing it All Back Home: Kinship Theory in Anthropology

Sylvia J. Yanagisako

TRANSITION 1: FROM MEDIEVAL TO EARLY MODERN KINSHIP PATTERNS

Outline and Summaries

Chapter 3. Lordship, Kinship, and Inheritance among the German High Nobility in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Period

Karl-Heinz Spiess

Chapter 4. Politics of Kinship in the City of Bern at the End of the Middle Ages

Simon Teuscher

Chapter 5. Sisters,Aunts, and Cousins: Familial Architectures and the Political Field in Early Modern Europe

Michaela Hohkamp

Chapter 6. Political Power, Inheritance, and Kinship Relations: The Unique Features of Southern France (Sixteenth–Eighteenth Centuries)

Bernard Derouet

Chapter 7. The Making of Stability: Kinship, Church, and Power among the Rhenish Imperial Knighthood, Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries

Christophe Duhamelle

Chapter 8. Rights and Ties that Bind: Mothers, Children, and the State in Tuscany during the Early Modern Period

Giulia Calvi

Chapter 9. Kinship, Marriage, and Politics

Gérard Delille

TRANSITION 2: FROM EARLY MODERN TO NINETEENTH-CENTURY KINSHIP PATTERNS

Outline and Summaries

Chapter 10. Kinship and Mobility: Migrant Networks in Europe

Laurence Fontaine

Chapter 11. Kin Marriages: Trends and Interpretations from the Swiss Example

Jon Mathieu

Chapter 12. Kinship and Gender: Property, Enterprise, and Politics

Elisabeth Joris

Chapter 13. Kinship, Civil Society, and Power in Nineteenth-Century Vannes

Christopher H. Johnson

Chapter 14. Middle-Class Kinship in Nineteenth-Century Hungary

Gábor Gyáni

Chapter 15. Kinship and Class Dynamics in Nineteenth-Century Europe

David Warren Sabean

Notes on Contributors

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Mathieu, Jon
Jon Mathieu has taught in various universities in Switzerland and other countries. He was the founding director of the Istituto di Storia delle Alpi at the University of Lugano. Currently he is a professor at the University of Lucerne.

Teuscher, Simon
Simon Teuscher has taught at UCLA and has been a member in residence at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. He is presently a professor of Medieval History at the University of Zurich.

Sabean, David Warren
David Warren Sabean has taught at the University of East Anglia, University of Pittsburgh, Cornell University, and UCLA. He was a fellow of the Max Planck Institute for History and the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and has been the recipient of an Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Forschungspreis. He is currently the Henry J. Bruman Professor of German History at UCLA.

David Warren Sabean has taught at the University of East Anglia, University of Pittsburgh, Cornell University, and UCLA. He was a fellow of the Max Planck Institute for History and the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and has been the recipient of an Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Forschungspreis. He is currently the Henry J. Bruman Professor of German History at UCLA.