Kindred and Clan in the Middle Ages and After by Bertha Surtees Phillpotts

Kindred and Clan in the Middle Ages and After by Bertha Surtees Phillpotts

Bertha S. Phillpotts (1863-1932) was an English historian and linguist of Scandinavia who served as the Director of Scandinavian Studies in the University of Cambridge from 1926 to 1932. First published as part of Cambridge Archaeological and Ethnological Series in 1913, this pioneering and highly influential book contains a detailed examination of kinship structures in northern Europe during the early medieval period. In this work, Phillpotts analyses the laws and literature of seven northern European countries to explore the kinship structure of their ancient societies. The references to the legal concept of 'weregild' and the description of gender hierarchies, together with the range of evidence examined, cause this work to remain of considerable relevance for the understanding of kinship systems in medieval Germanic and Scandinavian societies.

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ISBN 13	9781108010504
ISBN 10	1108010504
Title	Kindred and Clan in the Middle Ages and After
Author	Bertha Surtees Phillpotts
Series	Cambridge Library Collection - Anthropology
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Cambridge University Press
Year published	2010-10-31
Number of pages	320
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