Documentary Culture and the Laity in the Early Middle Ages
ISBN: 9781107025295 | 110702529X
Format: HardcoverPublisher: Cambridge Univ Pr
Pub. Date: 1/7/2013
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This revealing study explores how people at all social levels, whether laity or clergy, needed, used and kept documents.
Documents are the key building blocks of medieval social history. In this book, a series of tightly linked essays reveals for the first time the extent of their use and preservation by the laity in post-Roman Europe, North Africa and Egypt.
Many more documents survive from the early Middle Ages than from the Roman Empire. Although ecclesiastical archives may account ... MORE
Documents are the key building blocks of medieval social history. In this book, a series of tightly linked essays reveals for the first time the extent of their use and preservation by the laity in post-Roman Europe, North Africa and Egypt.
Many more documents survive from the early Middle Ages than from the Roman Empire. Although ecclesiastical archives may account ... MORE
| Introduction | |
| Lay archives in the Late Antique and Byzantine East: the implications of the documentary papyri | |
| Public administration, private individuals and the written word in Late Antique North Africa, c.284-700 | |
| Lay documents and archives in early Medieval Spain and Italy, c.400-700 | |
| The gesta municipalia and the public validation of documents in Frankish Europe | |
| Lay people and documents in the Frankish... MORE | |
| Archives, documents and landowners in Carolingian Francia | |
| The production and preservation of documents in Francia: the evidence of cartularies | |
| The laity, the clergy, the scribes and their archives: the documentary record of eighth- and ninth-century Italy | |
| Sicut mos esse solet: documentary practices in Christian Iberia, c.700-1000 | |
| On the material culture of legal documents: charters and their preservation in the Cluny archive, ninth to eleventh centuries | |
| Documentary practices, archives and lay people in central Italy (mid-ninth to eleventh centuries) | |
| Archives and lay documentary practice in the Anglo-Saxon world | |
| Conclusion | |
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