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The practices of marriage and inheritance and the representation of kinship among the medieval nobility are often studied separately, despite the argument that changes in conceptions of kinship accompanied the evolution of family structures, property transmission systems, and political organization. This article combines the practical and ideological aspects of kinship by analyzing its meaning for the nobility in late-medieval Zeeland. It demonstrates that the variety in power, wealth, and status among the noble families resulted in different reproductive strategies according to their standing and objectives. Regional institutions and property structures had a great impact on aristocratic family strategies in Zeeland, but did not result in different family structures or conceptions of lineage compared to the surrounding principalities.

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of figures and tables -- Preface -- List of contributors -- 1 Cities and solidarities. Urban communities in medieval and early modern Europe -- 2 Making the citizen, building the citizenry. Family and citizenship in fifteenth-century Barcelona -- 3 Gladman's procession and communal identity in Norwich, 1425-1452 -- 4 Mapping urban communities. A comparative topography of neighbourhoods in Bologna and Strasbourg in the late Middle Ages -- 5 Conflict, community, and the law. Guarantors and social networks in dispute resolution in early modern Saxony -- 6 The poor of medieval Zagreb between solidarity, marginalisation and integration -- 7 Poor boxes, guild ethic and urban community building in Brabant, c. 1250-1600 -- 8 Who's who in late-medieval Brussels? -- 9 A cursus for craftsmen? Career cycles of the worsted weavers of late-medieval Norwich -- 10 Wage labour, wealth and the power of a database. Unlocking communities of work outside urban guilds in Newcastle upon Tyne -- 11 Urban communities and their burghers in the Kingdom of Hungary (1750-1850). The possibilities databases offer for historical analysis -- 12 Speech and sociability. The regulation of language in the livery companies of early modern London -- 13 The physician's marzipan. Communities at their intersections in Basel around 1600 -- 14 'Scientific' instruments and networks of craft and commerce in early modern London -- Index.