Women and scriptures, tales and stories. On a recent monograph of "Ricerche Storiche"

Abstract

The paper traces the scientific motivations that led the authors to project and then to realize the monographic issue of "Ricerche Storiche” which title is "La didattica della storia di genere: esperienze, metodologie, percorsi" (n. 2, 2019). The article widens to retrace, albeit briefly, the history of women's education from the Middle Ages to the late Modern Age, highlighting the thematic focus more interesting, the articulations and the historical evidences, in an attempt to focus attention on the laborious and fragmented acquisition of cultural tools by women in the ancient Italian society. The authors highlight the numerous training agencies, so to speak, of the past, enhancing the individual and collective paths of schooling that developed along non-institutional paths.