Blood Ties and Fictive Ties : Adoption and Family Life in Early Modern France

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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 Fr...

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Main Author: Gager, Kristin Elizabeth
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2014.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Families.
Adoption.
Adopted children.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Services & Welfare.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Security.
HISTORY > Europe > France.
Familles > France > Histoire.
Enfants adoptes > France > Histoire.
Adoption > France > Histoire.
Families > France > History.
Adopted children > France > History.
Adoption > France > History.
France.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary: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 neighborhoods in early modern Paris did manage to adopt children as their legal heirs. In so doing, she offers a.
Physical Description:1 online resource (211 pages).
ISBN:9781400864331

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