Such regional laws could become imperative for other regions, too. Apart from canon and Roman law local and regional legal systems existed, customary law. The Catholic Church developed its own law, canon law, which grew in importance after 1100. Only after 1100 Roman law became again a subject of intensive study in Western Europe. In Byzance a form of Roman law ruled, the so-called Byzantine law. During this long period not only clear local differences existed, but also different legal systems came into force. Cursive Scripts Ordinary Scripts Textualis and Cursive Scripts: A Sociological ApproachĬhapter 6.The Middle Ages form a period of roughly thousand years, from 500 to 1500.Tally Sticks Signs, Symbols, Marks, and Abbreviations Scribal Abbreviations.From Colour to Black-and-White The Modest Triumph of Headwords and Titles Accessibility Tools: Indexes and Tables.The Data Categories Numerical and Alphabetical Order Subclasses.Justification and Ruled Lines Blocks and Blanks Long Lines and Columns.Codicological Downsizing: Biblical and ‘Literary’ Manuscripts Codicological Downsizing: Archival Documents Codicological and Palaeographical Downsizing: A Semi-Quantitative Analysis of an Archive of Schedules.Compacting (Reducing the Size of Documents). Compilation before 1200 ‘New’ Compilations Books as Tools An Example of Evolution of the Compilation Type during the Thirteenth Century: The Legendary The Deploying of Compilation Compilation the Fight against Heresy.Wax Tablets: Ephemeral Writing (Analysis by Type of Function, 1250-1400 Models of Tablets) Leases and Schedules (Leases Schedules and Notelets)Ĭhapter 3.Sanctuary Status Diplomas, Royal Ordinances, Papal Letters Acts of Foundation and Charters of Freedoms Placing in the Treasury (Sacralising the Royal Charter: The Role of the Treasury of Charters An Era of Treasuries).Map of the Southern Netherlands and Northern France (Beginning of the Fourteenth Century)Ĭhapter 1. Thus they shed new light on the men and women who had to learn to make, keep, and use them. At first, these documents were not backed by a clear legal authority there were no extant rules, formulas, or structural frameworks to which they needed to conform. Using codicology, palaeography, and diplomatics, it offers a general outline of a key period in the history of literacy which, with hindsight, can be shown to have transformed the Middle Ages.įurther, as the documents that are discussed were used in everyday life, they also have a significant social dimension. But it also presents important hypotheses regarding literacy and the sociological dimensions of writing in the Middle Ages. It deals with northern France and the area covered by the historic Low Countries, but places these regions in a broader European context and in the general history of literacy.īased on an exhaustive first-hand analysis of numerous archives and many document types, and featuring over a hundred illustrations, this book presents the reader with a large sample of documentary sources. This book explores the complex relations between the written word and medieval society by focusing on the proliferation of administrative and business documents during the so-called ‘long thirteenth century’.
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