From " Weak" Kinship to Kinship as a Resource of Communication. Transformations of European Kinship in Medieval Resource Regimes (B05)

• Subject Area: Medieval History
• Term: from 2015 to 2019
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 230856760

The project starts out from the scholarly consensus that in order to understand pre-modern societies, looking into their conceptions of kinship is particularly useful. The question is how conceptions of kinship represent cultural-specific ontologies and how they figure in the overall framework of different forms of relations. Since the early 1990s research on kinship has discussed the hypothesis that early post-Roman Latin Europe has been stimulated by Christian religious culture and within a few generations radical new concepts of kinship emerged and became dominant. The transformation from agnate-centered kinship to kinship centered on marriage should be seen as decisive elements of the social and political restructuring of post-Roman Latin Europe.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 1095: Discourses of Weakness and Resource Regimes
• Applicant Institution: Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main
• Project Head: Professor Dr. Bernhard Jussen