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      Communities and kinship

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      Author(s)
      Thornton, David E.
      Editor
      Stafford, P.
      Date
      2009
      Publisher
      Blackwell Publishing
      Pages
      91 - 106
      Language
      English
      Type
      Book Chapter
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      Book Title
      A Companion to the early middle ages: Britain and Ireland, c.500–c.1100
      Abstract
      The purpose of this chapter is to examine the local communities that existed in Britain and Ireland during the sub- and post-Roman periods. What was the nature of these communities? Should they be seen as population groups or territories? What were their internal dynamics and what were the personal networks that determined how their individual members interacted with one another? And how were such interactions, especially disputes, regulated by society? It is not an easy task to answer such questions for this particularly “dark” period: our extant historical documents are few and far between, and those that have survived are invariably later in date and not always reliable when dealing with the fi fth to eighth centuries. Furthermore, most of these sources are concerned primarily with the important kingdoms and their rulers, and have little to say about the lives of their more ordinary inhabitants.
      Keywords
      Communities and kinship
      Fifth and sixth centuries, representing end of centralized Roman administration in West
      Post‐Roman communities, squatting on Roman predecessors
      Anglo‐Saxon chronicle
      Kinship, representing fundamental social network
      Kinship, agnatic and patrilineal
      “hide” ‐ terra unius familiae
      Christianity and canon law, influencing native legal tradition
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      http://hdl.handle.net/11693/50900
      Published Version (Please cite this version)
      https://doi.org/10.1002/9781444311020.ch7
      https://doi.org/10.1002/9781444311020
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