Strategies of inheritance among Kentish fishing communities in the later Middle Ages

Sweetinburgh, Sheila

doi:10.1016/j.hisfam.2006.06.003

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“…This is doubly unfortunate given the casual nature of maritime employment in the past, the evidence of occupational pluralism and cultural similarities between seafarers Navy," British Journal of Industrial Medicine, II, No. 2 (1945), [65][66][67][68][69][70][71][72][73]. Seafarers in the interwar period suffered from high rates of tuberculosis mortality as a direct result of poor working conditions, including "wretched quarters," "scanty" rationing and the lack of professional medical support on most cargo vessels.…”

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“…Social networks have always been important as a means of surviving adverse economic conditions, and their role in port cities was reinforced by the spatial proximity and mutual dependence of the seafaring and maritime-related community. 65 Community? Norwegian Sailors and Their Wives in 17th-century Amsterdam," History of the Family, XII, No.…”

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The Seafarers' Urban World: A Critical Review

Lee¹

2013

International Journal of Maritime History

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Downloaded fromto the attractions of the gin mill and the prostitute with their shoreside behaviour characterized by "noisy deviltry and aimless carousing." 3 Even as late as 1897, the US Supreme Court acknowledged that seamen were treated by Congress (as well as by the British Parliament) "as deficient in that full and intelligent responsibility for their acts which is accredited to ordinary adults." 4 A number of factors have reinforced the traditional image of seafarers and their urban world. First, most ports had a distinct, if not notorious, sailortown which served as the focal point for life ashore. In Liverpool, the area adjacent to the new quay was "a mass of sailor taverns and low-class drinking houses" with gin palaces in every adjacent street. In Hamburg, St. Pauli (at least until 1939) was "one great web of predatory spiders" with numerous dance halls, beer gardens and taverns "all awaiting to ensnare the homewardbound sailorman." Baltimore's "The Block" was "renowned among seafarers," while the "watering holes" and bath houses of Yokohama were wellknown among foreign seamen. London's Radcliffe Highway retained its notoriety even after the implementation of certain improvements after 1918, while Omonia Square in Piraeus was "full of touts, pedlars and cheap night clubs." 5 Sailortown can be defined generically as a "zone of cultural contact" with a well-defined diaspora space, but it was invariably "foremost in revelry" with a range of dance halls, music halls and low-class theatres, while dock areas in general were often centres of vice. 6 Most port towns, like late eighteenth-3 Elmo Paul Hohman, Seamen Ashore A Study of the United Seamen's

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The Seafarers' Urban World: A Critical Review

Lee¹

2013

International Journal of Maritime History

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“…As Rotman (2006) argues for a nineteenth-century American context, activities took place in a range of locations within and outside the home and beyond the settlement, meaning that the lives of men and women in the community cannot be simply reduced to economic or domestic spheres. Sweetinburgh's (2006) analysis of later medieval Kentish fishing communities demonstrates the strong communal bonds which developed through the manning of boats. There was a gendered element to labour around fishing, with men going to sea and women repairing nets and sails, as well as processing the fish.…”

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Becoming Through Milling: Challenging Linear Economic Narratives in Medieval England

Jervis¹

2022

CAJ

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The relationship between handmilling, undertaken in domestic contexts, and mechanized mills in medieval Kent is used to challenge linear approaches to economic progress in the Middle Ages. Inspired by posthuman perspectives which emphasize messiness, non-linearity and multiplicity, medieval economic development is re-imagined as a patchwork of intensive material processes. In so doing, an approach is developed which works towards dissolving problematic binaries between gendered labour, domestic and economic spheres and the Middle Ages and modernity.

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“…Draper argues for a number of discrete regimes of property transmission and particularities that challenges any identification of simple and general patterns of inheritance. Attempting an investigation of family and inheritance in the fishing families of Kentish towns, Sweetinburgh employs wills to set out the transfer of property and social capital at the point of death, a significant feature in the replication of communities. McCullough et al. employ theories of kin selection in order to posit explanations for the aggressive conflicts between aristocratic members of the same blood lines; they attempt to suggest that there was some care taken in order not to damage blood lines and also that limited ‘culling’ was consistent with an instinct to promote an efficient inheritance.…”

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The Economic History Review

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Early Anglo-Saxon settlement sites have been revealed by several excavations. Dickens et al. report a substantial village and associated cemetery at Bloodmoor Hill, Suffolk. Finds included evidence for textile manufacture, but not specialist commodity production; occupation appears to have ceased in the late seventh or early eighth century. The settlement at Gamlingay, Cambridgeshire, published by Murray and McDonald, yielded an enclosed farmstead and cemetery, both in use until c.800. Evidence for textile production and the presence of Ipswich ware suggests the site's participation in an active trading network. Wright, on Orton Waterville, Peterborough, reports a long-lived settlement generating relatively modest material remains. The site at Shepperton, Middlesex, described by Poulton, appears to have been regularly laid out in the later Anglo-Saxon period, replacing a flourishing earlier settlement. Parallel ditches point to the 'toft and croft' arrangement of medieval villages.Debate continues over early population movement. Casting doubt on the historicity of Irish migration to western Britain in the fourth or fifth centuries, Dark postulates the pre-existing presence there of spoken Irish. This would contrast with the evidence for Anglo-Saxon migration, particularly to 'Anglian' areas, considered more secure. Bartholemew offers grounds for identifying 'Angulus', Continental homeland of the Angli described by Bede, as modern Frisia. Possible connections with Procopius's account, usually treated with scepticism, might suggest Frisia as the starting-point for a substantial part of the Anglo-Saxon migration into Britain. Addressing the subject of river-names, generally considered a good indicator of Anglo-Saxon displacement in lowland areas, Yeates offers evidence from the Cotswolds area showing the loss of Brittonic river-names occurring over a far longer period.Though not necessarily incompatible with the orthodox view, this may suggest a greater survival of Brittonic nomenclature originally in the west.In funerary archaeology, Hamerow explores the 'special' deposition of human and animal remains within areas of occupation. The relatively high percentage of dogs and horses, together with cattle, strengthens the impression of ritualistic activity, possibly directed towards fertility, while an association with sunken-featured buildings would make sense if such structures had been used for storage. Reconstructing the ritual of human cremation, Williams places the deceased body at the centre of an elaborate visual spectacle. Rather than a mourner-centred approach to interpretation, the body itself may have had some agency in a complex interrelationship between the living and the dead. Chester-Kadwell, evaluating metal-detector finds in Norfolk, suggests that if used carefully these can supplement the existing corpus of known early cemeteries. Lee's study of textile evidence in funerary contexts shows its value not only in relation to gender but also as an indicator of social status. The model of a 'final phase' o...

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Strategies of inheritance among Kentish fishing communities in the later Middle Ages

Cited by 6 publications

References 18 publications

The Seafarers' Urban World: A Critical Review

The Seafarers' Urban World: A Critical Review

Becoming Through Milling: Challenging Linear Economic Narratives in Medieval England

Review of periodical literature published in 2006

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