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The author presents the tentative results of a lexical research carried out on a collection of seven criminal prosecutions between 1482 and 1598 preserved in the Arxiu Municipal de la Pacria in Lleida. A fraction of the 33 gleaned words was still unattested in basic lexicographical [...]

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De totes les característiques burlesques i paròdiques de gèneres literaris tradicionals medievals que apareixen en «Lo Somni de Joan Joan» una de les que més destaca és la paròdia jurídica, ja que l’obra està configurada com un plet judicial que les dones burgeses benestants [...]

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This paper focuses excusively on Valencian gemecar ‘gemegar’, “to whine”. It asserts that it is a generalized form in Valencian areas, where it can be found as early as the 15th century. On the one hand, it refutes the hypothesis that the word should be a back-formation from [...]

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Abstract: The access of women to literature was the object of diatribes of many Catalonian medieval writers, but in the  15th century it became a socially accepted fact.

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Review and contextualisation of biographical, bibliographical, linguistic and ideological facets of Martí de Viciana el Vell (the elder) and his grandson Rafael Martí de Viciana (with special attention to linguistic attitude). By contrasting them, it serves to throw into relief [...]

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After highlighting the variety and extent of literary texts in the last decades of the 15th century and the importance of the literary tradition, the unsuitability of critical assumptions like the radical separation of profane and religious literature is pointed out. An example of [...]