Out of Love for My Kin : Cornell University Press : 9781501700156 : 1501700154 : 07 May 2015 : In 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 care?and in some cases outright affection?for family members is recorded in the documents themselves, as many a nobleman and woman made pious benefactions "out of love for my kin." In a book made rich by evidence from charters?which provide details about life events including birth, death, marriage, and legal disputes over property?Livingstone reveals an aristocratic family dynamic that is quite different from the