Out of Love for My Kin by Amy Livingstone HARDBACK 9780801448416

Out of Love for My KinAristocratic Family Life in the Lands of the Loire, 10001200\nAuthor(s): Amy Livingstone\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Cornell University Press, United States\nImprint: Cornell University Press\nISBN-13: 9780801448416, 978-0801448416\nSynopsis\nIn Out of Love for My Kin, Amy Livingstone examines the personal dimensions of the lives of aristocrats in the Loire region of France during the eleventh and twelfth centuries. She argues for a new conceptualization of aristocratic family life based on an ethos of inclusion. Inclusivity is evident in the care that medieval aristocrats showed toward their families by putting in place strategies, practices, and behaviors aimed at providing for a wide range of relatives. Indeed, this careand in some cases outright affectionfor family members is recorded in the documents themselves, as many a nobleman and woman made pious benefactions \""out of love for my kin.\""\n\n In a book made rich by evidence from charterswhich provide d.