Entailment identity
Construction, transmission, perpetuation (14th-17th centuries)
Collection
European Research Council (ERC)Language
EnglishAbstract
This book is about identity, one that no longer exists and can only be understood through an exercise in historicisation and otherness. Entailment identity refers to the way in which identity was built, transmitted and perpetuated through entails, a specific pre-modern legal institution, within corporate family bodies. How did the use of identity symbols, such as family names and arms, respond to the need to immortalise memory? What were the physical, mental, and moral identity requirements that defined the (im)perfect heir? What roles were assigned to archives, as places of memory, power and identity? In what ways was identity prolonged beyond death? How was identity built in community, and how did the entails benefit the community and, conversely, were they benefited by it?
Keywords
Entails; History; Portugal; Europe; IdentityDOI
10.14195/978-989-26-2669-7ISBN
9789892626697, 9789892626697Publisher
Imprensa da Universidade de CoimbraPublisher website
https://www.uc.pt/imprensa/Publication date and place
Coimbra, 2024Grantor
Classification
European history
Portugal