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Early modern English kinship in the long run: reflections on continuity and change

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posted on 2023-06-07, 20:37 authored by Naomi Tadmor
The article highlights the significance of alliances of blood and marriage in England from the early modern period to the present, including both positive and negative relations among kin. Examining different historiographical approaches, it emphasises the role of kinship in explanations of continuity and change. Rather than focusing on the isolated nuclear family, or, conversely, on an alleged decline of kinship, it highlights the importance of enmeshed patterns of kinship and connectedness. Such patterns were not only important in themselves, it is suggested, (whether culturally, socially, economically, or politically), but they also invite new comparisons with other early modern societies, and in the long run. Even patterns typical of present-day new families and families of choice and aspects of the present-day English language of kinship, the article proposes, may bring to mind some similarities with notions of kinship and related household ties characteristic of the early modern period.

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  • Published

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  • Published version

Journal

Continuity and Change

ISSN

0268-4160

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Issue

S01

Volume

25

Page range

15-48

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  • History Publications

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Special issue on kinship in Britain and beyond from the early modern to the present

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  • Yes

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  • Yes

Legacy Posted Date

2012-07-27

First Open Access (FOA) Date

2012-07-27

First Compliant Deposit (FCD) Date

2012-07-27

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