Blood Ties and Fictive Ties. Adoption and Family Life in Early Modern France.
by Gager, Kristin Elizabeth:
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-Princeton University Press, 1996-. First edition. xi+197 pages with index. Cloth. Fine in dustjacket. In Paris during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the practice of adopting children was strongly discouraged by cultural, religious, and legal authorities on the grounds that it disrupted family blood lines. In fact, historians have assumed that adoption had generally not been practiced in France or in the rest of Europe since late antiquity. Challenging this view, Kristin Gager brings to light evidence showing how married couples and single men and women from the artisan neighbourhoods in early modern Paris did manage to adopt children as their legal heirs. In so doing, she offers a new, richly detailed portrait of family life, civil law, and public assistance in Paris, and reveals how citizens forged a wide variety of family forms in defiance of social, cultural, and legal norms. Gager bases her work on documents ranging from previously unexplored notarised contracts of adoption to court cases, theological treatises, and literary texts. She examines two main patterns of adoption: those privately arranged between households and those of destitute children from the Parisian foundling hospice and the Hotel-Dieu. Gager argues that although customary law rejected adoption and promoted a exclusively biological model of the family, there existed an alternative domestic culture based on a variety of "fictive" ties. Gager connects her arguments to current debates about adoption and the nature of the family in Europe and the United States. Blood Ties and Fictive Ties. Adoption and Family Life in Early Modern France. 0691029849
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- Blood Ties and Fictive Ties. Adoption and Family Life in Early Modern France.
- Author
- Gager, Kristin Elizabeth:
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0691029849
- ISBN 13
- 9780691029849
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- -Princeton University Press, 1996-
- Place of Publication
- Princeton, New Jersey
- This edition first published
- 1996
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