So if their big metric is # of centuries "under the influence of the church," are they arguing for a stronger influence of the early church on kinship? And are they claiming that kinship was the Church's primary sexual concern (rather, than, sodomy/adultery/remarriage)? 9/13
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And the citations are wildly terrible. You're going to claim that kinship changes caused sweeping changes in medieval society and then cite JARED DIAMOND and FRANCIS FUKUYAMA?? 10/13pic.twitter.com/fBSEDjplCx
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You're going to claim that kinship ties are the most important structuring institutions in society and then point to Levi-Strauss? 11/13pic.twitter.com/QUk996IkOr
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There's remarkably little citation of medieval scholarship and what is cited is piecemeal. I have no criticism of individual works cited, which are often very good, but they don't add up to a complete picture of medieval attitudes towards sexuality or kinship across Europe. 12/13pic.twitter.com/0SmpY9uXow
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@ISASaxonists and@prof_gabriele have said recently in relation to other "studies" like this, these data studies are built on wildly ahistorical assumptions. This claim that the Church "built the West" rests on a racist foundation. 13/13 https://twitter.com/Lollardfish/status/1197704778505166851 …Erik "Mr. Bloodaxe" Wade added,
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I really want to know what
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Well ya girl is on a train, so I have *time* today. My overarching criticism of this is that they are falling prey to the protestant societal trap that sees the Church as a monolithic institution able to control the huge numbers of people from varying societies in Europe.
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The idea that the Church had the ability to actual exercise any form of coercive control over anyone before the 12th century is laughable, and even then it was u likely it would bother with anyone from anything but the most royal and nobel families.
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Do you *really* think that they were bothering to control what families in, say, Iceland? The alpine regions of Austria? Fucking Cumbria? Or that they had the means to do so?
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It also ignores the fact that there was significant pushback against these laws. In Sweden in particular, for example, consanguinity rules were considered ridiculous and a major over reach by the Church. They were actively fought at a royal level.
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