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queer medievalist researching the global origins of ideas about sex/race in medieval English lit. helicopter parent to a kitty. phd. (he/him). views my own.

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    Erik "Mr. Bloodaxe" Wade‏ @erik_kaars 23 Nov 2019

    I *beg* your pardon? The Catholic Church reduced incest and cousin marriage, therefore "the West" became individualistic and promoted democracy?? I can't even explain how much this doesn't make sense. Oh wait, I *can* explain. I study medieval sex. 1/13https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/11/how-early-christian-church-gave-birth-today-s-weird-europeans …

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      2. Erik "Mr. Bloodaxe" Wade‏ @erik_kaars 23 Nov 2019

        Now, I don't study kinship ties specifically, but I can say that some scholars claim that the shift away from extended family to a nuclear family centered around the father came with INCREASED social expectation of emotional connection to family members. 2/13

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      3. Erik "Mr. Bloodaxe" Wade‏ @erik_kaars 23 Nov 2019

        The study leaps backwards and forwards in time: number of centuries "under the influence of the medieval church" being correlated with amount of charitable blood donations in the present, for instance. 3/13pic.twitter.com/vBoXOviHVb

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      4. Erik "Mr. Bloodaxe" Wade‏ @erik_kaars 23 Nov 2019

        It claims to control for the integration into the Roman Empire (based on Roman roads???), education (based on presence of medieval universities, AS IF THE UNIVERSITY WAS THE ONLY FORM OF EDUCATION), and incorporation into the Carolingian Empire OR Soviet Bloc (?!) 4/13pic.twitter.com/AJrG1St7mo

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      5. Erik "Mr. Bloodaxe" Wade‏ @erik_kaars 23 Nov 2019

        It makes *baffling* statements about the difference between the medieval and modern "Church," as if there is only one dominant form of Christianity. 5/13pic.twitter.com/WXcWhYLoZj

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      6. Erik "Mr. Bloodaxe" Wade‏ @erik_kaars 23 Nov 2019

        Erik "Mr. Bloodaxe" Wade Retweeted Ted McCormick

        And, as others have pointed out, it makes huge leaps in terms of the connections between the church and kinship groups, family structure and individuality, etc etc. 6/13https://twitter.com/mccormick_ted/status/1193028975951519745 …

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        Ted McCormick @mccormick_ted
        OK, so others have said a lot about this, but my own comment was a bit glib. Let me say a more, not from the perspective of a medievalist but at least that of a historian of pre-modern Europe. https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/11/how-early-christian-church-gave-birth-today-s-weird-europeans …
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      7. Erik "Mr. Bloodaxe" Wade‏ @erik_kaars 23 Nov 2019

        I am focusing on my specialty, and this claim about Church "policies" starting in 500 CE is...broad. What policies? How were these enforced? We don't know that people even went to confession regularly before the millennium. There's little in secular laws on kinship. 7/13pic.twitter.com/g3tYOLUnjB

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      8. Erik "Mr. Bloodaxe" Wade‏ @erik_kaars 23 Nov 2019

        The Church also didn't assert exclusive control over marriage until the 10th and 11th centuries. Yes, they made lots of claims about what you *should* do but we don't have strong evidence they were enforced (and not strong evidence for the late Middle Ages either). 8/13

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      9. Erik "Mr. Bloodaxe" Wade‏ @erik_kaars 23 Nov 2019

        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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      10. Erik "Mr. Bloodaxe" Wade‏ @erik_kaars 23 Nov 2019

        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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      11. Erik "Mr. Bloodaxe" Wade‏ @erik_kaars 23 Nov 2019

        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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      12. Erik "Mr. Bloodaxe" Wade‏ @erik_kaars 23 Nov 2019

        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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      13. Erik "Mr. Bloodaxe" Wade‏ @erik_kaars 23 Nov 2019

        Erik "Mr. Bloodaxe" Wade Retweeted

        As @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 …

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      14. Erik "Mr. Bloodaxe" Wade‏ @erik_kaars 23 Nov 2019

        I really want to know what @GoingMedieval thinks of this new study

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