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dc.contributor.authorVAN STEENSEL, Arie
dc.date.accessioned2014-12-19T18:00:13Z
dc.date.available2014-12-19T18:00:13Z
dc.date.issued2012
dc.identifier.citationJournal of family history, 2012, Vol. 37, No. 3, pp. 247-269
dc.identifier.issn0363-1990
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1814/34024
dc.description.abstractThe practices of marriage and inheritance and the representation of kinship among the medieval nobility are often studied separately, despite the argument that changes in conceptions of kinship accompanied the evolution of family structures, property transmission systems, and political organization. This article combines the practical and ideological aspects of kinship by analyzing its meaning for the nobility in late-medieval Zeeland. It demonstrates that the variety in power, wealth, and status among the noble families resulted in different reproductive strategies according to their standing and objectives. Regional institutions and property structures had a great impact on aristocratic family strategies in Zeeland, but did not result in different family structures or conceptions of lineage compared to the surrounding principalities.
dc.language.isoEn
dc.publisherSage Publications Inc
dc.relation.ispartofJournal of family history
dc.subjectMedieval nobility
dc.subjectKinship
dc.subjectMarriage and Inheritance
dc.subjectFamily Strategies
dc.subjectZeeland
dc.subjectLow Countries
dc.subjectMarriage
dc.titleKinship, property, and identity : noble family strategies in late-medieval Zeeland
dc.typeArticle
dc.identifier.doi10.1177/0363199012439516
dc.identifier.volume37
dc.identifier.startpage247
dc.identifier.endpage269
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