VIC343Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Fetus, Middle Ages, Apsis
5 Apr 2016
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Always keep track of the two different traditions we have: aristotelian single seed theory, and the galenic double seed theory. , he postulates the need for both partners to be sexual pleased for the best chances of conception. Idea that in the aristotelian line reach there apogee in the fact that to this very day when the child is born we give that child the fathers name, not the mothers name. Birth control as not the same in the modern conception of it but instead quite the opposite. Today we speak of preventing conception; in the early modern. Period it was a way of fostering increasing child conception. By way of the likely hood of a child not reaching adulthood, it was necessary to have many to ensure that the family estate was inherited legitimately. Children were seen as a blessing of god, security for your old age, as a legal way of passing down to the next generation your property.
