Genealogie als Denkform in Mittelalter und Früher Neuzeit

The volume inquires into the formal aspects and the achievements of genealogical thinking in the Middle Ages and early modern age with reference to art history, early German studies and the history of science and ideas. Central to the endeavour is a reconstruction of a thought-form enabling contemporaries to organize and assure the availability of knowledge in all kinds of areas and use it to legitimize and demonstrate power.