Some scholars think that post-Black Death labour scarcity enhanced young adults' economic autonomy, liberating them from parental control.
— Alice Evans (@_alice_evans) August 11, 2021
But the plague came back every generation & peasants continued to refer to nuclear families, just as before. pic.twitter.com/DSKscph5ws
Some people are horrified that the English do not live with their elderly parents, but instead cart them off to retirement properties.
— Alice Evans (@_alice_evans) August 11, 2021
Apparently we've been doing this for at least 700 years? pic.twitter.com/AllaGesoHq
Early mediaeval Anglo Saxon society its the 'hundred' that forms a sort of corporate membership at a peasant level, its not kin based another term is 'plebs'(the word parish has the same root). Its not kin based.
ReplyDeleteSpace and close proximity is the great dictator.
Its not confined to Anglo Saxon England, T.M. Edwards (one of the scary beasts of early med. social organization)raises the question of wither the nuclear family was the norm stretching way back.
ReplyDeleteFor A.E. he is or was keen to note that Lord simply means 'loaf giver' the head of a household. That regardless of rank this may have been the basic model in all households, extending across the social spectrum.
p.s books not incorrect. Terms for wider linage in Anglo Saxon society use the terminology of the nuclear family, elder father, second father, third father, six father etc.
ReplyDeleteThis is key evidence for some historians to suggest the centrality of the nuclear family.
Lineage was disregarded/ often unknown by peasants
Not sure how you get to that conclusion but later medieval not my thing not read the book, but the conclusions seem odd.