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Warren Brown, Marios Costambeys, Matthew Innes, Adam Kosto - Documentary Culture and the Laity in the Early Middle Ages, Inbunden

Inbunden, Engelska, 2012

Documentary Culture and the Laity in the Early Middle Ages

Av Warren Brown, Marios Costambeys, Matthew Innes, Adam Kosto

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Beskrivning
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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  • Utgivningsdatum: 2012-11-22
  • Mått: 152 x 231 x 28 mm
  • Vikt: 720 g
  • Format: Inbunden
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 406
  • Förlag: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN: 9781107025295
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Warren C. Brown is Professor of History at the California Institute of Technology. Marios Costambeys is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Liverpool. Matthew Innes is Professor of History at Birkbeck, University of London. Adam J. Kosto is Professor of History at Columbia University.

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'Most studies of early medieval literacy have emphasised the role of the Church in the production of written documents. This collection puts the spotlight on the involvement of the laity, and vividly reveals the extent to which laymen played an active role in documentary culture throughout the post-Roman World, from the Eastern Mediterranean to Anglo-Saxon England. In so doing it greatly enriches our understanding of government, administration and estate organisation in the centuries after Rome's fall.' Ian Wood, University of Leeds

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