ISBN:
9781107025295
Language:
English
Pages:
xvi, 389 Seiten
Additional Information:
Rezensiert in Führer, Julian Rezension von Warren C. Brown: Marios Costambeys Matthew Innes 2015
DDC:
302.2/2440940902
Keywords:
Middle Ages Sources
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History Sources
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Civilization, Medieval Sources
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Mittelalter
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Dokument
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Geschichte
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Europe History 476-1492
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Sources
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Quelle
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Quelle
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Quelle
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Archiv
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Schriftlichkeit
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Mittelalter
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Geschichte 284-1000
Abstract:
"Many more documents survive from the early Middle Ages than from the Roman Empire. Although ecclesiastical archives may account for the dramatic increase in the number of surviving documents, this new investigation reveals the scale and spread of documentary culture beyond the Church. The contributors explore the nature of the surviving documentation without preconceptions to show that we cannot infer changing documentary practices from patterns of survival. Throughout Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages - from North Africa, Egypt, Italy, Francia and Spain to Anglo-Saxon England - people at all social levels, whether laity or clergy, landowners or tenants, farmers or royal functionaries, needed, used and kept documents. The story of documentary culture in the early medieval world emerges not as one of its capture by the Church, but rather of a response adopted by those who needed documents, as they reacted to a changing legal, social and institutional landscape"--
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Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction; 2. Lay archives in the Late Antique and Byzantine East: the implications of the documentary papyri
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