IMC 2007: Sessions
Session 224: Writing Professionals and the Structuring of the Political and Institutional Fabric of Portuguese Cities in the Late Middle Ages
Monday 9 July 2007, 14.15-15.45
| Sponsor: | Centro de História, Universidade de Lisboa |
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| Organiser: | Bernardo de Sá-Nogueira, Departamento de História, Faculdade de Letras, Universidade de Lisboa |
| Moderator/Chair: | Bernardo de Sá-Nogueira, Departamento de História, Faculdade de Letras, Universidade de Lisboa |
| Paper 224-b | Drafting of Uncommon Contracts, Evidencing Complex Local-Specific Social and Economic Relationships (Language: English) Index terms: Charters and Diplomatics, Economics - Urban, Literacy and Orality, Local History |
| Paper 224-c | Notaries-Public versus Episcopal Notaries: The Examples of Braga and Porto, Two Portuguese Cities of Episcopal Rule in the 13th Century (Language: English) Index terms: Administration, Charters and Diplomatics, Local History |
| Paper 224-d | Use and Circulation of Documents in Three Cities of Central Portugal: Coimbra, Santarém, and Lisboa in the 13th-14th Centuries (Language: English) Index terms: Administration, Charters and Diplomatics, Literacy and Orality, Local History |
| Abstract | In the reign of Portuguese King Afonso II (1211-1223), modern notaries-public appeared in Portuguese cities and towns, and the profile and practices of writing professionals henceforth changed significantly. As a result of increasingly structured political, economic, and social life, around ever stronger urban centres, literate individuals and groups helped create, develop, and strengthen institutions that relied on written documents as basis for all activities. We look into how tax, financial, and economic administration soon depended upon them, as cement of solid document-based governance. |