Documentary culture and the laity in the early Middle Ages /
"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 cont...
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2013.
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Lay archives in the Late Antique and Byzantine East: the implications of the documentary papyri / Peter Sarris
- 3. Public administration, private individuals and the written word in Late Antique North Africa, c.284-700 / Jonathan P. Conant
- 4. Lay documents and archives in early Medieval Spain and Italy, c.400-700 / Nicholas Everett
- 5. The gesta municipalia and the public validation of documents in Frankish Europe / Warren C. Brown
- 6. Lay people and documents in the Frankish formula collections / Warren C. Brown; 7. Archives, documents and landowners in Carolingian Francia / Matthew Innes; 8. The production and preservation of documents in Francia: the evidence of cartularies / Hans Hummer
- 9. The laity, the clergy, the scribes and their archives: the documentary record of eighth- and ninth-century Italy / Marios Costambeys
- 10. Sicut mos esse solet: documentary practices in Christian Iberia, c.700-1000 / Adam J. Kosto
- 11. On the material culture of legal documents: charters and their preservation in the Cluny archive, ninth to eleventh centuries / Matthew Innes
- 12. Documentary practices, archives and lay people in central Italy (mid-ninth to eleventh centuries) / Antonio Sennis
- 13. Archives and lay documentary practice in the Anglo-Saxon world / Charles Insley
- 14. Conclusion.
