Autor: Simon Teuscher

In the mid-nineteenth century, Jacob Grimm published a collection of late medieval records of local law—called Weistümer—that was scarcely less comprehensive than his famous collection of fairy tales …

While the current discussion of ethnic, trade, and commercial diasporas, global networks, and transnational communities constantly makes reference to the importance of families and kinship groups for …

Since the publication of Philippe Ariès’s book, Centuries of Childhood, in the early 1960s, there has been great interest among historians in the history of the family and the household. A central as …

The word “blood” awakens ancient ideas, but we know little about its historical representation in Western cultures. Anthropologists have customarily studied how societies think about the bodily subst …

1568 bringt eine Frau in einem englischen Dorf eine Missgeburt zur Welt, die aussieht wie eine Katze ohne Fell. Was hat dieser Fall mit Politik zu tun? Mitunter wurden solche Ereignisse als »Vorzeich …

The long tradition of Western political thought included kinship in models of public order, but the social sciences excised it from theories of the state, public sphere, and democratic order. Kinship …

Richter entscheiden Rechtsstreitigkeiten. Dieser Satz klingt selbstverständlicher, als er ist. Denn bislang konzentrierte sich die historische Justizforschung zwar mit zahlreichen Aspekten der Gerich …