The last texts: Fifteen Venetian testaments of women in the year of the black death (1348)
Abstract
The paper presents the edition, with linguistic notes, of fifteen testamentary cedulae dictated in Venice by women in the months following the outbreak of the plague in 1348. Since these documents are probably not autographs, but probably dictated, the interest in their linguistic form concerns above all the organization of the text, in which the social conditions of the authors are peculiarly reflected. (Macro)syntax and textuality thus become diagnostic elements in a historical situation of emergency and exceptionality such as that of the plague, which influences the conception and structure of these texts.
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