“The Genealogical Unity of Mankind”
Hans Hummer
This chapter argues that medieval genealogies are not representations of “blood” connections per se, but functioned as eschatological maps divine plans and promises. It derives an indigenous conception genealogy from exegetical works on biblical genealogies, which also inspired the descending form genealogies. Biblical structured historiography, traced salvation history through a lattice connected to Jesus’s genealogy. The shows royal princely figures in Carolingian Europe, Flanders, Lambert St. Omer’s <italic>Liber Floridus</italic> were devised discern divinely ordained direction Frankish Europe drifted into conglomerate kingdoms principalities between tenth twelfth centuries.
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