Ex libris, August 2012

BEDOS-REZAK, Brigitte (ed.); IOGNA-PRAT, Dominique (ed.) - L'individu au Moyen Âge: individuation et individualisation avant la modernité. [Paris]: Aubier, 2005. 380, [3] p. ISBN 2-70-072345-7.

This collective work reflects on the historical background of the concept of the individual as an autonomous subject. The analysis focuses on the development of signs of personal identity during the Middle Ages, especially name, signature and portraits. The authors argue that the genesis of the modern individual is characterised by a collection of steps undertaken during the medieval period, and the different facets of the individual (autonomous social and moral actor) are expressed in the first person without it being singled out or excluded from the group that defines them (family, lineage, parish or feud).
 

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