Things that last: testamentary circulation of everyday objects and social dynamics in late medieval Sansepolcro
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https://doi.org/10.6093/1593-2214/12635Keywords:
Middle Ages, 14th-15th centuries, central Italy, Borgo San Sepolcro, testamentary bequests, objectsAbstract
This essay investigates the testamentary circulation of everyday objects in a small community of central Italy, Borgo San Sepolcro, between the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, aiming to uncover its social, cultural, and gendered implications. Drawing on a corpus of last wills, it examines the movable goods that testators most frequently bequeathed and the multiple logics that guided their transmission. The analysis places this specific case in the context of recent debates in the social sciences on the diverse values of objects and their capacity to shape the social world.
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