Contributi di Filologia dell’Italia Mediana | Alcune relazioni logico-semantiche nelle Costituzioni di un monastero benedettino femminile a L’Aquila (sec. XIV)

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Contributi di Filologia dell’Italia Mediana

Alcune relazioni logico-semantiche nelle Costituzioni di un monastero benedettino femminile a L’Aquila (sec. XIV)

DOI: 10.53136/97912218232268
Pages: 137-154
Publication date: Dicember 2025
Publisher: Aracne
SSD: L-FIL-LET/12 L-FIL-LET/13

Annachiara MONACO

This paper examines the modes of expression and conceptual values of the logical-semantic relations of causality, consecutiveness, and finality in the fourteenth-century Costituzioni of a Benedictine nunnery in L’Aquila. The study highlights how these relations, conveyed mainly through devices that aim for explicitness, give the text an argumentative dimension, serving to clarify the rationale behind the rules imposed on the monastic community to guide the behaviour of its members and ensure full compliance with the prescriptions.
Keywords: female monasteries, prescriptive texts, logical-semantic relations, argumentation