Allerchristlichste Könige und Mindere Brüder. Franziskanische Klöster als Begegnungsräume im angevinischen Königreich Ungarn

Burkhardt, Julia

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“…20 On entry, each of them received 100 red guldens as a 'dowry'. Hence, while reinforcing existing ties through in-laws, at each new site of the Polls' family business their daughters served as intercessors in one prominent house of the mendicant orders, which were particularly fostered by the Anjou family and thus consolidated Jans Poll's ties with the royal court (Burkhardt 2015;Just and Jaspert 2019). Surviving charters document some of his and his third wife's additional bequests (AMB: nos.…”

Section: Interregional Mechanisms Of Kinship Gender and Memorymentioning

confidence: 99%

Kinship, gender and the spiritual economy in medieval Central European Towns

Lutter

Frey

Krammer

et al. 2021

History and Anthropology

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The present contribution starts from the debate about kinship as a social institution in medieval Europe initiated by Jack Goody's pioneering anthropological work in the 1980s and drawn upon by historians and anthropologists alike. We focus on the aspect of the allegedly systematic separation of kinship from the organization of memory of the dead brought about by the establishment of Christianity. However, throughout the European Middle Ages families did not completely cede memorial tasks to religious institutions. Rather, they re-affirmed memorial bonds to religious institutions by legal arrangements and through family members within these communities, just as kinship continued to play a key role in medieval political organization. Given their social heterogeneity medieval cities provide a rich documentation of networks across ties of family, kinship, friends, and clients that intersected with more institutionalized communities (parish churches, monasteries, hospitals). People bestowed economic benefits on these communities in return for their members' "eternal" prayer for the donators' souls. This created mutual bonds both between kin and religious communities. The ensuing forms of belonging were part of a more complex frame of social exchange, as families used the same institutions as "hubs" to corroborate social and political relations to their peers. These bonds would intersect with ties between representatives of kin groups with positions in key political organizations such as city councils. A further clue to understanding these relations is gender. Economic transactions and related memorial practices feature a considerable number of female actors underlining the salience of bilateral kin relations and practices of property devolution.

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Section: Interregional Mechanisms Of Kinship Gender and Memorymentioning

confidence: 99%