Scritture personali come fonti per la codifica delle emozioni nel tedesco protomoderno: la Denkschrift di Jörg Kazmair

The present article intends to provide a contribution to the linguistic analysis of emotion in Early modern German, which has not yet been carried out systematically. As data source was chosen a personal narrative written by the Bavarian patrician Jörg Kazmair, Denkschrift über die Unruhen zu München in den Jahren 1397-1403 (‘Memoir of the riots in Munich between 1397 and 1403’). Although emotions are seldom lexically and explicitly verbalised, a fine-grained linguistic investigation focusing both on the expression and the thematisation of emotions, carried out applying mainly tools from narrative analysis and textual linguistics, reveals the high emotional potential of the text.