International audienceThis article examines medieval ideas about the human status and access to the sacraments of monsters: both the strange races on the edges of the known world, and individual portentous births. The article shows that medieval discourse about monsters was not homogeneous. As far as monstrous races were concerned, Augustin, who attached little importance to physical appearance and tended to include the races in his “universalist” vision of humanity, constituted a reference that could not be ignored. However, from the 13th century on, the idea of a necessary concord between body and soul made this position harder to maintain, whereas the taking into account of other criteria (social and religious behaviour, linguistic capac...
Can a girl become pregnant by taking a bath in water polluted by sperm? Is spontaneous generation po...
International audienceThis paper purposed to study figures of children considered as bastards throug...
International audienceThis article focuses on a strange and little-studied literary genre. 'Moniages...
International audienceThis article examines medieval ideas about the human status and access to the ...
This article introduces and synthesizes the results of a collective volume on the history of heredit...
International audienceThe article studies the role of blood and heredity in the works of two great m...
International audienceThis article examines the medieval discussions by philosophers, theologians an...
This article traces the history of medieval canon (and Roman) law on 'hermaphrodites' as a third se...
International audienceThis article provides a general overview of female house ascetics from the end...
International audienceThis article takes a retrospective and prospective look at the study of the hi...
International audienceIn order to evaluate the role and importance of sex difference in medieval the...
For medieval audiences women occupied a specific, designated cultural area which, while they could ...
The purpose of this study is to analyze some peculiar aspects on the conception of monsters and mons...
Monsters appear in a variety of sources and from a variety of periods in the Middle Ages. That they ...
Can a girl become pregnant by taking a bath in water polluted by sperm? Is spontaneous generation po...
Can a girl become pregnant by taking a bath in water polluted by sperm? Is spontaneous generation po...
International audienceThis paper purposed to study figures of children considered as bastards throug...
International audienceThis article focuses on a strange and little-studied literary genre. 'Moniages...
International audienceThis article examines medieval ideas about the human status and access to the ...
This article introduces and synthesizes the results of a collective volume on the history of heredit...
International audienceThe article studies the role of blood and heredity in the works of two great m...
International audienceThis article examines the medieval discussions by philosophers, theologians an...
This article traces the history of medieval canon (and Roman) law on 'hermaphrodites' as a third se...
International audienceThis article provides a general overview of female house ascetics from the end...
International audienceThis article takes a retrospective and prospective look at the study of the hi...
International audienceIn order to evaluate the role and importance of sex difference in medieval the...
For medieval audiences women occupied a specific, designated cultural area which, while they could ...
The purpose of this study is to analyze some peculiar aspects on the conception of monsters and mons...
Monsters appear in a variety of sources and from a variety of periods in the Middle Ages. That they ...
Can a girl become pregnant by taking a bath in water polluted by sperm? Is spontaneous generation po...
Can a girl become pregnant by taking a bath in water polluted by sperm? Is spontaneous generation po...
International audienceThis paper purposed to study figures of children considered as bastards throug...
International audienceThis article focuses on a strange and little-studied literary genre. 'Moniages...