Zuccolin, Gabriella (Author)
Ibis Edizioni
Physical Details: 240
Language: Italian
Nelle ricerche contemporanee, i gemelli offrono un punto di vista privilegiato per provare a tracciare una possibile linea di demarcazione tra ciò che dipende dalla “natura” (dal patrimonio genetico) e ciò che è invece prodotto dalle condizioni ambientali e socio-culturali. Ma già nel Medioevo i gemelli avevano attirato l’attenzione di medici e maestri universitari per la possibilità di avvalersene come banco di prova per i propri modelli teorici. Il volume si propone una prima ricognizione dei dibattiti medievali sui gemelli, tenendo conto dell’intersezione tra istanze epistemologiche diverse: mediche, morali, filosofiche e teologiche. I gemelli permettono in effetti ai medievali non solo di ripensare le teorie sulla generazione umana ereditate dal mondo greco-romano, ma anche di valutare le pretese scientifiche di discipline come la fisiognomica e l’astrologia, di indagare il modo in cui la grazia diversifica la natura, e di testare (soprattutto attraverso la teratologia e i casi di gemelli congiunti) una serie di ipotesi sull’irripetibilità delle complessioni, sull’unicità o pluralità delle forme nel composto umano e sulla costituzione dell’identità individuale. [Abstract translated by Google Translate: This is the abstract in English… Today, twins offer a privileged viewpoint to try to draw a possible dividing line between what depends on "nature" (genetic heritage) and what is instead produced by environmental and socio-cultural conditions. But already in the Middle Ages the twins had attracted the attention of doctors and university teachers for the possibility of using them as a test bed for their theoretical models. The volume proposes a first reconnaissance of the medieval debates on twins, taking into account the intersection between different epistemological instances: medical, moral, philosophical and theological. Indeed, the twins allow medieval people not only to rethink the theories on human generation inherited from the Greco-Roman world, but also to evaluate the scientific claims of disciplines such as physiognomy and astrology, to investigate the way in which grace diversifies nature, and to test (especially through teratology and the cases of conjoined twins) a series of hypotheses on the unrepeatability of complexions, on the uniqueness or plurality of forms in the human compound and on the constitution of individual identity.]
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