Blood and kinship: matter and metaphor from ancient rome to the present
Éditeur :
Berghahn Books
ISBN :
9780857457493
Date de publication :
1 janv. 2013
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
Blood awakens associations with ancient ideas. But we know very little about the historical representations of blood in Western cultures. The contributors attempt to follow the use of blood in mapping family and kinship relations in European culture from the ancient world to the present.