How Long to Read Visions of Kinship in Medieval Europe

How Long Does it Take to Read Visions of Kinship in Medieval Europe?

It takes the average reader 6 hours and 40 minutes to read Visions of Kinship in Medieval Europe by Hans Hummer

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Description

What meaning did human kinship possess in a world regulated by Biblical time, committed to the primacy of spiritual relationships, and bound by the sinews of divine love? In the process of exploring this question, Hans Hummer offers a searching re-examination of kinship in Europe between late Roman times and the high middle ages, the period bridging Europe's primitive past and its modern future. Visions of Kinship in Medieval Europe critiques the modernist and Western bio-genealogical and functionalist assumptions that have shaped kinship studies since their inception in the nineteenth century, when Biblical time collapsed and kinship became a signifier of the essential secularity of history and a method for conceptualizing a deep prehistory guided by autogenous human impulses. Hummer argues that this understanding of kinship is fundamentally antagonistic to medieval sentiments and is responsible for the frustrations researchers have encountered as they have tried to identify the famously elusive kin groups of medieval Europe. He delineates an alternative ethnographic approach inspired by recent anthropological work that privileges indigenous expressions of kinship and the interpretive potential of native ontologies. This study reveals that kinship in the middle ages was not biological, primitive, or a regulator of social mechanisms; nor was it traceable by bio-genealogical connections. In the Middle Ages, kinship signified a sociality that flowed from convictions about the divine source of all things and which wove together families, institutions, and divinities into an expansive eschatological vision animated by 'the most righteous principle of love'.

How long is Visions of Kinship in Medieval Europe?

Visions of Kinship in Medieval Europe by Hans Hummer is 400 pages long, and a total of 100,000 words.

This makes it 135% the length of the average book. It also has 122% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Visions of Kinship in Medieval Europe Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 9 hours and 6 minutes to read Visions of Kinship in Medieval Europe aloud.

What Reading Level is Visions of Kinship in Medieval Europe?

Visions of Kinship in Medieval Europe is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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