IMC 2003: Sessions
Session 1304: The Mechanics of Literacy
Wednesday 16 July 2003, 16.30-18.00
| Organiser: | Jason K. Glenn, Department of History, University of Southern California |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Hanna Vollrath, Historisches Institut, Ruhr-Universität Bochum |
| Paper 1304-a | Lay People and Documents in Carolingian Europe (Language: English) Index terms: Archives and Sources, Literacy and Orality |
| Paper 1304-b | Diocesan Ideology, the Laity and the Purposes of Literacy (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Lay Piety, Literacy and Orality, Mentalities |
| Paper 1304-c | Making it Official: Creating Charters for the Nuns of Champagne, 1150-1300 (Language: English) Index terms: Charters and Diplomatics, Economics - Trade, Gender Studies, Monasticism |
| Abstract | During the Middle Ages literacy and textual production became the preserve of an elite male ecclesiastical culture. This session examines how the production and social function of texts changes over time (from the early Middle Ages to 1300), and addresses the consequences of these changes in three specific contexts. Particular issues addressed by this session concern the relationship between ecclesiastical and lay culture as mediated by texts (Diplomatic as well as historical narratives), and the creation of textual communities. Papers in this session explore the interaction of literacy and ideology, as well as their role of the laity and the function of gender in the production and preservation of charters. |