ABSTRACT
There is and always has been a genre in which writers put themselves into the center of their “work” of the events and thoughts they describe: autobiographies or texts from journals and personal writings, all of which we define generically as “personal memoirs.” Autobiography, personal memoir, for prive, “self”-writing, chronicles, journals, memoirs—everybody is not only aware of the importance of this literature, but also of its limits. Catalonia has become a focus of international research because of the quantity and quality of the documents found there so far as compared to Italy, England, or France. This phenomenon is due to cultural, political, and even legal reasons. The origin of studies of autobiographical or first person writings varies depending on each historiographical territory or school of philology. In conclusion, the amount of autobiographies, diaries, notebooks, memoirs, and other forms of writings for oneself in late medieval and early modern Catalonia is noteworthy.
