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- Title
Marked Men: Identity and Surveillance in Late Medieval Italy (Perugia, 1411-45).
- Authors
Dean, Trevor; Skinner, Patricia
- 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.
- Subjects
PERUGIA (Italy); ITALY; MASCULINE identity; SELF; BEARDS; HISTORIOGRAPHY; STATURE; HAIR; HAIR dyeing &; bleaching
- Publication
History Workshop Journal, 2022, Vol 94, p130
- ISSN
1363-3554
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/hwj/dbac021