Generations, more generations and still more generations

• morganatic marriage (from Wikipedia:) "In the context of royalty, a morganatic marriage is a marriage between people of unequal social rank, which prevents the passage of the husband's titles and privileges to the wife and any children born of the marriage." This passage suggests that the mamafesta's author is not an individual but an entire bloodline of authors who make their contribution to the document, generation after generation. Among that multiplicity of authors may be found any number of wives and children who are denied their birthright by a system that privileges male headship.
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