Abstract
This article presents and analyses an exceptional and unused source: lists of the patrolmen and court-servants of the judges of fifteenth-century Perugia. These lists are exceptional because of the wealth of detail they provide on the provenance and physical description of these men, personal information that was written down as a sort of identity record. We describe and explain the nature of the source and use the data for multi-faceted exploration of personal identity, discussing the history and historiography of age, stature, hair, beards, facial disfigurement, marks, scars, eyes, noses and skin colour.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 130-152 |
Number of pages | 23 |
Journal | HISTORY WORKSHOP JOURNAL |
Volume | 94 |
Early online date | 21 Sept 2022 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 4 Nov 2022 |
Keywords
- History and Philosophy of Science
- History