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Darrera modificació: 2023-03-07
Bases de dades: Sciència.cat
Van der Lugt, Maaike, "Generation in the Middle Ages: past, present, future", dins: Paravicini Bagliani, Agostino - Jacquart, Danielle (ed.), Les sciences au Moyen Âge (XIIIe-XVe siècle), Florència, SISMEL - Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2021, pp. 365-387.
- Resum
- This article takes a retrospective and prospective look at the study of the history of generation in the Middle Ages. Whereas early studies focused on theories and ideas developed in the medieval schools and universities, historians have, since the 1970s, become increasingly interested in the dissemination, circulation and vernacularisation of medical and philosophical learning and in hands-on skills, especially of women. Norms, beliefs, and values around sexuality, childbirth, and marriage, in addition to social, religious, legal and cultural practices have likewise attracted increasing attention. The article identifies several avenues for further research. The available scholarship invites us to rethink conventional periodisations. More comparative studies acknowledging regional differences in institutional, social, and cultural landscapes within the Latin West are needed. Jewish and Islamic perspectives also merit further attention. In-depth comparative studies would allow us to identify affinities and differences in reception of the same Greek heritage and better understand how specific norms, beliefs, and practices related to marriage, sex, and childbearing informed the study of generation and how knowledge of the physiology of generation in turn influenced social and religious practices, norms, and beliefs. The last section proposes some methodological reflections on key terms (generation, reproduction, conception, heredity, infertility, abortion, etc.) and on the danger and uses of anachronism in the study of generation.
- Matèries
- Història de la medicina
Medicina - Ginecologia, obstetrícia i cosmètica
- URL
- https://www.academia.edu/97627609/Generation_in_the ...
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