Celtic Fosterage
Adoptive Kinship and Clientage in Northwest Europe
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7987348 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Peter Parkes (University of Kent, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2006 |
| Volume | 48 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 359-395 |
| Publication date | 2006-03-08 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Comparative Studies in Society and History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0010-4175 • E-ISSN: 1475-2999 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0010417506000144 |
| OpenAlex | W2166457950 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 17 |
| References cited | 32 |
Historians of Europe may be generally aware of the former significance of Celtic child-fostering, so prominently documented in the law books and legends of medieval Ireland. Yet there is no comprehensive survey of such fosterage from a comparative historical perspective, nor has its archival documentation been collated for analysis. The present essay aims to redress this neglect: it reviews extant evidence of Celtic fosterage in the British Isles, examined with reference to comparable institutions of adoptive kinship documented throughout western Eurasia, which comprised some of its scarcely recognized “elementary structures” of familial clientage and feudatory state formation (cf. Guerreau-Jalabert 1981; 1999; Mitterauer 2006
Ancient history · Celtic languages · Documentation · Ethnology · Extant taxon · Genealogy · Kinship · Neglect · Political science · Redress · Sociology · Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies · Historical Studies of British Isles · History · Law · Medieval Literature and History · Psychology
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| Unique citing works | 17 |
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| Citations per year | 0,94 |
| Citation span | 2008 - 2026 (19) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 17 |