Journal title SOCIETÀ E STORIA
Author/s Roberta Falcetta
Publishing Year 2023 Issue 2023/182
Language Italian Pages 30 P. 745-774 File size 226 KB
DOI 10.3280/SS2023-182004
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The article proposes to analyse the use of verbal violence by women in the early modern period, outlining its historiographical paths and research perspectives. The aim of the research is to reveal the discursive strategies implemented by men and women, who in early modern Europe had recourse to violent language not only as an instrument of individual or collective aggression, but also as a means of conflict resolution, either formally or through extrajudicial experience. The documentary sources recreate for us – even if with all the limits of an institutional source, which is also cass. written by men, – the atmosphere of the courtroom, which becomes a further arena of debate and conflict: a close correlation emerges between the representation and defence of honour as a social category and the violent word as an instrument that expresses in the daily conflict its performative dimension. To frame the different forms in which this violent verbal interaction appears, we will focus on the use of insulting words by women, through the analysis of several case studies that provide us with a cross-section of the female judicial experience in the secular courts of the Kingdom of Naples in the Early modern period.
Keywords: verbal violence, female violence, gender history, Kingdom of Naples.
Roberta Falcetta, La parola come arma. Violenza verbale e relazioni di genere nei tribunali di età moderna in "SOCIETÀ E STORIA " 182/2023, pp 745-774, DOI: 10.3280/SS2023-182004