Livelli di scrittura e cultura linguistica nella corrispondenza femminile tra Medioevo e prima Età moderna: questioni teoriche e casi paradigmatici
Rita Fresu
2021-01-01
Abstract
The paper proposes an excursus of the guidelines adopted in the historical- and sociolinguistic field on female writings (with particular reference to those between the Middle Ages and early modern age), starting from the theoretical reflection on the relationship between language and gender, and the relative implications regarding the processes of education and acculturation of women. It then takes into consideration fifteen autograph letters, written in 1494 by female members of the Roman papal court, and addressed to Pope Alexander VI [Rodrigo Borgia], with the purpose of showing how a subtile analysis of the language allows to grasp the cultural skills of different writers, even united by the same historical and situational context, to distribute them on different levels, and thus to focus the practice of vulgar epistolary writing by lay women belonging to the upper class at the end of the fifteenth century.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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