But the fact that their data cannot account for peasantry of which we have very spotty demographic marriage data, then this whole study is ridiculous.
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And also, it totally ignores the fact that cousin marriages were in fact very common in the post-medieval period. Like please explain to me how this works when 18th and 19th c England and Ireland have many examples of cousin marriage.
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You know what’s worse than not citing historians? Is citing historians and not actually considering what they wrote, and having a lack of engagement with the wider discourse. It means that you looked, stopped when you found what you thought you needed, and didn’t go further.
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So their map: premise is regarding the early Church contact with the world and the impact on kin structures. Okay so not only is the premise here that the early medieval Church was a Western European thing, it ignores the origins and impact of Christianity in the following places
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Ethiopia being the biggest one, but in general it oversimplifies the Church in N Africa and the Middle East quite significantly.
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Also re: data sets. They are comparing modern evidence (presumably of regular people but I have no idea) with the aforementioned spotty kinship data of the medieval period and just mashing it all up together and presenting that as a model.
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Did no one see the problems inherent in that?
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Also if someone could point out their primary sources/data sets to me in this, I would love that. Because I cannot for the love of me find them in the paper. https://science.sciencemag.org/content/366/6466/eaau5141 …
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Since some person decided to be rather rude about the medievalists who are more than justified in calling this paper out, I want to just highlight something regarding medieval history that I mentioned yesterday.
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Who did what? Who was rude? Someone named Pseudoerasmus and some other person that Katherine was telling off yesterday. Feel free to look back through my tweets.
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Lol because he has no idea what he’s talking about.
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