Hi Everyone,
At the SCSC in St. Louis, I will be giving a paper that might be of interest to scholars of early modern women and gender: “The Materiality of Last Will” in the panel The Materiality of Writing: Social Norms and Performative Text in Premodern Towns, # 46, Mill Studio 5, 8:30-10:00. The paper considers last wills of seventeenth century Tuscan women as performative acts to understand women’s legal literacy and how they used it.
Best,
Giovanna
Giovanna Benadusi
Professor of History
University of South Florida
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