Galasso, Serena (2026) Things that last: testamentary circulation of everyday objects and social dynamics in late medieval Sansepolcro. Reti Medievali Rivista, 27 (1). pp. 79-104. ISSN 1593-2214
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[EN] 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. / [IT] Il saggio indaga la circolazione testamentaria degli oggetti d’uso quotidiano in una piccola comunità dell’Italia centrale, Borgo San Sepolcro, tra XIV e XV secolo, con l’obiettivo di metterne in luce le implicazioni sociali, culturali e di genere. Sulla base di un corpus di testamenti, si esaminano i beni materiali più frequentemente lasciati in eredità e le molteplici logiche che ne guidavano la trasmissione. L’analisi pone questo caso specifico in risonanza con i dibattiti più recenti nell’ambito delle scienze sociali sui compositi valori degli oggetti e la loro capacità di contribuire alla costruzione del sociale.
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| Parole chiave: | This essay draws on work initiated within the UKRI project "Art and Inequality in the Shadow of the Black Death" (https://www.artandinequality.com), directed by Samuel Cohn. There, I first assembled a corpus of devotional bequests intended for commissioned artworks and devotional objects. The Sansepolcro sample was later expanded and analysed within two research projects funded by the European Union: the NextGenerationEU MSCA Seal of Excellence project at the University of Padua, ThiMo – Things in Motion: Material Practices in "Late Medieval Households (Italy, 14th-15th Centuries) (2024-25) and the Marie Skłodowska-Curie project Things that Matter: Mobility and Agency of Everyday Objects in Late Medieval Italy" (2025-27) (Grant Agreement No. 101154204), both conducted at the University of Padua. |
| Soggetto: | D History General and Old World > D History (General) > D111 Medieval History |
| Depositato da: | dr Vincenzo De Luise |
| Depositato il: | 13 Lug 2026 18:13 |
| Ultima modifica: | 21 Ago 2026 19:01 |
| URI: | https://www.rmoa.unina.it/id/eprint/7541 |
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