DOI: 10.53136/97912218232268
Pagine: 137-154
Data di pubblicazione: Dicembre 2025
Editore: Aracne
SSD:
L-FIL-LET/12 L-FIL-LET/13
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