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 emo- tion 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 fo- cusing 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.