Bernhard Jussen

Ramie Targoff

This book explores one of the central questions that has haunted husbands and wives and lovers over the millennia of history: What kind of afterlife might they expect for their love once one or both of them have died? Focusing on the evolution of id

Concepts of Posthumous Love in Medieval and Early Modern Europe

Love After Death

This book explores one of the central questions that has haunted husbands and wives and lovers over the millennia of history: What kind of afterlife might they expect for their love once one or both of them have died? Focusing on the evolution of ideas about posthumous love within medieval and early modern Europe, the book includes many religions and cultures in order to understand how expectations about the afterlife differed across traditions.

Love after Death

Dieser Band informiert knapp, kompetent und anschaulich über Geschichte und Kultur der fränkischen Gesellschaft von der Völkerwanderungszeit bis zu dem unspektakulären Ende des letzten Nachfahren Karls des Großen im 10. Jahrhundert. Schwerpunkte liegen auf dem Erbe des Imperium Romanum, das die Franken sehr erfolgreich ausgestalteten, sowie auf den politischen und sozialen Strukturen. Die kleine Einführung erhellt zudem die Entstehung der christlichen Kultur, die Wissensorganisation und die wirtschaftlichen Verhältnisse in der fränkischen Gesellschaft.

Geschichte, Gesellschaft, Kultur

Die Franken

Aleida Assmann

Anne und Patrick Poirier

Archäologie zwischen Imagination und Wissenschaft

Valentin Groebner

Gadi Algazi

Pre-modern Figurations of Exchange

Negotiating the Gift

David Warren Sabean

Christopher H. Johnson

Simon Teuscher

The word "blood" awakens ancient ideas, but we know little about its historical representation in Western cultures. Anthropologists have customarily studied how societies think about the bodily substances that unite them, and the contributors to this volume develop those questions in new directions. Taking a radically historical perspective that complements traditional cultural analyses, they demonstrate how blood and kinship have constantly been reconfigured in European culture. This volume challenges the idea that blood can be understood as a stable entity, and shows how concepts of blood and kinship moved in both parallel and divergent directions over the course of European history.

Matter for Metaphor from Ancient Rome to the Present

Blood and Kinship

"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.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Godparenthood and Adoption in the Early Middle Ages

Spiritual Kinship as Social Practice

Bernhard Jussen

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