Ancestry, blood, and heredity. Attitudes towards biological descent in late medieval Tuscany, c.1250-1400
This thesis examines intellectual and social attitudes to biological descent in late medieval Tuscany. In recent decades, historians have paid increasing attention to the body as a locus of experience, individuality, and identity. Yet bodies, like individuals, always have a genealogy. Thus, in this...
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2022
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