TY - BOOK ID - 32833480 TI - Visions of Kinship in Medieval Europe PY - 2018 SN - 9780198797609 0198797605 0192518291 0191838969 PB - Oxford Oxford University Press DB - UniCat KW - Kinship KW - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination & Race Relations. KW - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Minority Studies. KW - History KW - Ethnology KW - Clans KW - Consanguinity KW - Families KW - Kin recognition KW - Parenté KW - Parenté UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:32833480 AB - 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. ER -