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Late medieval English society placed great weight on the practices of primogeniture, patrilineal descent, and patriarchal government, and the significance of the father had cultural resonance beyond the rule of law. Yet despite a burgeoning interest in both the family and gender, "the father" has to date received little attention from medievalists. This book takes an interdisciplinary approach to the analysis of the "fictions" of fatherhood, the ideological constructs that underpinned late medieval conceptions of fathers and patriarchy. Its focus on gentry and mercantile readers and writers also offers new insights into the literary culture of late medieval England by considering how texts were produced and received within gentry and bourgeois communities, and demonstrates the ability of texts to not only reflect but also shape hegemonic norms and cultural anxieties. Through close examination of late medieval letters and romances, It shows how the father was the dominant figure not only of medieval domestic life, but also of the medieval imagination. Dr Rachel Moss is Lecturer in Medieval History, Faculty of History, University of Oxford.

English literature --- Fatherhood in literature. --- Fatherhood --- History and criticism. --- History --- Parenthood --- Gentry. --- Ideological Constructs. --- Late-Medieval Father. --- Mercantile Readers. --- Middle English Texts. --- Patriarchy. --- Patrilineal Descent. --- Primogeniture. --- Literature and society

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S11/0700 --- S11/0705 --- S11/1200 --- S02/0200 --- China: Social sciences--Clan and family: general and before 1949 (incl. names, clan rules) --- China: Social sciences--Clan and family: since 1949 --- China: Social sciences--Anthropology, ethnology (incl. human palaeontology): general and China --- China: General works--Civilization and culture --- Ethnology --- Families --- Kinship --- Patrilineal kinship --- Agnatic descent --- Agnatic kinship --- Patrilineal descent --- Patriliny --- Unilineal descent (Kinship) --- Patriarchy --- China --- History. --- Social life and customs.

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Naxi (Chinese people) --- Matrilineal kinship --- Patrilineal kinship --- Moso (Peuple de Chine) --- Ethnic identity. --- Religion. --- Kinship. --- Identité ethnique --- Parenté --- Lijiang Zhuanqu (China) --- History. --- Social life and customs. --- S11/1223 --- -Naxi (Chinese people) --- -Matrilineal kinship --- -Patrilineal kinship --- -Agnatic descent --- Agnatic kinship --- Patrilineal descent --- Patriliny --- Unilineal descent (Kinship) --- Patriarchy --- Matrilineal descent --- Matriliny --- Matriarchy --- Moso (Chinese people) --- Moso (Tribe) --- Mosso (Chinese people) --- Na-hsi (Chinese people) --- Na-khi (Chinese people) --- Nahsi (Chinese people) --- Nakhi (Chinese people) --- Ethnology --- Tibeto-Burman peoples --- Yi (Chinese people) --- China: Social sciences--Noso, Naxi --- Ethic identity --- Religion --- Kinship --- Lijiang Diqu (China) --- -Lijiang Diqu (China) --- -History --- Social life and customs --- -China: Social sciences--Noso, Naxi --- Identité ethnique --- Parenté --- Agnatic descent --- Ethnic identity --- Li-chiang ti chʻü (China) --- Li-chiang ti chʻü, China --- Lijiang Shi (China)

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Presenting a new approach to the history of Chinese kinship, this book attempts to bridge the gap between anthropological and historical scholarship on the Chinese lineage by considering its development in terms of individual and collective strategies. Based on a wide range of newly available sources such as lineage genealogies and stone inscriptions, as well as oral history and extensive observation of contemporary ritual practice in the field, this work explores the historical development of kinship in villages of the Fuzhou region of southeastern Fujian province. In the late imperial period (1368-1911), the people of Fuzhou compiled lengthy genealogies, constructed splendid ancestral halls, and performed elaborate collective rituals of ancestral sacrifice, testimony to the importance they attached to organized patrilineal kinship. In their writings on the lineage, members of late imperial elites presented such local behavior as the straightforward expression of universal and eternal principles. In this book, the author shows that kinship in the Fuzhou region was a form of strategic practice that was always flexible and negotiable. In using the concepts and institutions of kinship, individuals and groups redefined them to serve their own purposes, which included dealing with ethnic differentiation, competing for power and status, and formulating effective responses to state policies. Official efforts to promote a neo-Confucian agenda, to register land and population, and to control popular religion drove people to organize themselves on kinship principles and to institutionalize their kinship relationships. Local efforts to turn compliance with official policies, or at least claims of compliance, to local advantage meant that policymakers were continually frustrated. Because kinship was constituted in a complex of representations, it was never stable or fixed, but fluid and multiple. In offering this new perspective on this history of Chinese lineage practices

S11/0700 --- S04/0451 --- Kinship --- -Patrilineal kinship --- -Agnatic descent --- Agnatic kinship --- Patrilineal descent --- Patriliny --- Unilineal descent (Kinship) --- Patriarchy --- Ethnology --- Clans --- Consanguinity --- Families --- Kin recognition --- China: Social sciences--Clan and family: general and before 1949 (incl. names, clan rules) --- China: History--Gazetteers: Fujian --- History --- China --- Genealogy. --- -History --- -Kinship --- Patrilineal kinship --- History. --- -China: Social sciences--Clan and family: general and before 1949 (incl. names, clan rules) --- -S11/0700 --- Cina --- Kinë --- Cathay --- Chinese National Government --- Chung-kuo kuo min cheng fu --- Republic of China (1912-1949) --- Kuo min cheng fu (China : 1912-1949) --- Chung-hua min kuo (1912-1949) --- Kina (China) --- National Government (1912-1949) --- China (Republic : 1912-1949) --- People's Republic of China --- Chinese People's Republic --- Chung-hua jen min kung ho kuo --- Central People's Government of Communist China --- Chung yang jen min cheng fu --- Chung-hua chung yang jen min kung ho kuo --- Central Government of the People's Republic of China --- Zhonghua Renmin Gongheguo --- Zhong hua ren min gong he guo --- Kitaĭskai︠a︡ Narodnai︠a︡ Respublika --- Činská lidová republika --- RRT --- Republik Rakjat Tiongkok --- KNR --- Kytaĭsʹka Narodna Respublika --- Jumhūriyat al-Ṣīn al-Shaʻbīyah --- RRC --- Kitaĭ --- Kínai Népköztársaság --- Chūka Jinmin Kyōwakoku --- Erets Sin --- Sin --- Sāthāranarat Prachāchon Čhīn --- P.R. China --- PR China --- Chung-kuo --- Zhongguo --- Zhonghuaminguo (1912-1949) --- Zhong guo --- Chine --- République Populaire de Chine --- República Popular China --- Catay --- VR China --- VRChina --- 中國 --- 中国 --- 中华人民共和国 --- Jhongguó --- Bu̇gu̇de Nayiramdaxu Dundadu Arad Ulus --- Bu̇gu̇de Nayiramdaqu Dumdadu Arad Ulus --- Bu̇gd Naĭramdakh Dundad Ard Uls --- Khi︠a︡tad --- Kitad --- Dumdadu Ulus --- Dumdad Uls --- Думдад Улс --- Kitajska --- Agnatic descent