I suspect I am not the only one who learned about the emergence of individualism in the medieval period, If anyone has sources off the top of their head that would be good.https://twitter.com/ruschenpohler/status/1193959876394770433 …
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Replying to @AdmiralHip
I've always treated such claims as skeptical and teleological? idk maybe i'm missing some brilliant study out there, but a lot of it seems to be really trying to draw a line between "primitive tribalism" and "Good Modernity Times"
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Replying to @AdmiralHip
and here i thought we'd binned evolutionary theory ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Replying to @HalstedMedieval @AdmiralHip
Wait, I'm just asking for the emergence of first signs of individualism. If you're sceptical of what you call "broad brush" approaches, surely you have detailed narrative accounts of how specific individualistic traits (however you define them) came abt in certain times & places?
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Replying to @ruschenpohler @AdmiralHip
That's the problem, I'm not sure what I define as an "individualistic trait." We'd need to have a long discussion about what individuality is before we get to defining when its component parts show up.
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Replying to @HalstedMedieval @AdmiralHip
And if we take as a start the movement towards the nuclear family? What are some hypotheses (& materials) that historians regard as current & relevant?
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Generally the thinking is that the idea of a nuclear family is a very modern one. I don't have sources off the top of my head though. But cousins, godchildren, foster-children (in Ireland for instance), grandparents, aunts, uncles, lodgers. They could all be a "unit".
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