Women’s Account Books in Venice and the Veneto Region. Material and Emotional Aspects
In recent years, several studies have focused on women’s everyday writings in the early modern period, highlighting, even in the Italian context, the specific circumstances and the skills with which women of the past engaged in writing and accounting in their daily lives. This paper, however, shifts...
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Cahiers d’études italiennes
2024
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| Mynediad Ar-lein: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Crynodeb: | In recent years, several studies have focused on women’s everyday writings in the early modern period, highlighting, even in the Italian context, the specific circumstances and the skills with which women of the past engaged in writing and accounting in their daily lives. This paper, however, shifts the focus to the relationship between these women and the materiality of the account books they owned, drawing from a corpus of account books identified in Venice and the Veneto region between the 16th and 18th centuries. In addition to providing a brief overview of the variety and material aspects of the examined account books, the study explores the emotional dimensions associated with the possession and use of account books by women, as revealed through the wills of some of them. |
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