ISBN:
9781107025295
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (408 p)
Parallel Title:
Print version Documentary Culture and the Laity in the Early Middle Ages
DDC:
302.22440940902
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
This revealing study explores how people at all social levels, whether laity or clergy, needed, used and kept documents
Description / Table of Contents:
Contents; Figures and tables; Contributors; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Series; Charters; Law; Papyri; Studies; Journals; Varia; 1 Introduction; The laity; Laypeople, documents and the Church; Literacy and the use of documents; Archives; 2 Lay archives in the Late Antique and Byzantine East: the implications of the documentary papyri; The ancient archive from Babylon to Byzantium; The typology of the ancient archive; Lay archives in the early Byzantine period: problems of definition; Problems of language
Description / Table of Contents:
Documentation, `archivalization', and social and economic relations in the early Byzantine worldDocumentation, credit arrangements and control; The seventh century and beyond; Conclusions and implications; 3 Public administration, private individuals and the written word in Late Antique North Africa, c. 284-700; Private documentation; The late Roman administration and its successors; Shaping African documentary practice; Record-keeping and archives; Conclusions; 4 Lay documents and archives in early medieval Spain and Italy, c. 400-700; From late Roman diocese to barbarian kingdom
Description / Table of Contents:
From tablets to charters and late Roman -popular law'The papyri of Ravenna and gesta municipalia; Visigothic Spain: legislation, formularies and slate; Conclusion: towards Lombard Italy; 5 The gesta municipalia and the public validation of documents in Frankish Europe; The gesta municipalia in the Italian papyri; The Frankish formulas describing the submission of documents to gesta municipalia; The manuscripts; Evidence for the gesta outside the formulas; Beyond the gesta municipalia; Conclusions; 6 Laypeople and documents in the Frankish formula collections; Marculf; Tours; Flavigny
Description / Table of Contents:
BnF lat. 2123Conclusions; 7 Archives, documents and landowners in Carolingian Francia; Evidential horizons and their historiographical repercussions; Charters and their transmission at Carolingian St Gall; A locality, its documents and their survival: Rankweil and St Gall; An estate and its documents: Perrecy in the ninth century; From Roman public records to Frankish charter collections; 8 The production and preservation of documents in Francia: the evidence of cartularies; 9 The laity, the clergy, the scribes and their archives: the documentary record of eighth- and ninth-century Italy
Description / Table of Contents:
`Lay' documents and their preservation in Italian archivesAn alternative to the archive: public validation of documents; Ecclesiastical institutions and the preservation of documents; 10 Sicut mos esse solet: documentary practices in Christian Iberia, c. 700-1000; Lay documents; Lay archives; 11 On the material culture of legal documents: charters and their preservation in the Cluny archive, ninth to eleventh centuries; Documentary practices before the monastic archive: the Cluny evidence; The preservation of lay documents and the history of the Cluny archive
Description / Table of Contents:
Landowners and dossiers: documentary practices before and within the Cluny charter collection
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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