IMC 2008: Sessions
Session 1509: Varieties of Urban Literacy, III: From City to Heaven - Urban Testaments and Literate Mentalities
Thursday 10 July 2008, 09.00-10.30
Sponsor: | Utrecht Centre for Medieval Studies, Universiteit Utrecht |
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Organiser: | Anna Adamska, Onderzoekinstituut voor Geschiedenis en Kunstgeschiedenis, Universiteit Utrecht |
Moderator/Chair: | Marco Mostert, Onderzoekinstituut voor Geschiedenis en Kunstgeschiedenis, Universiteit Utrecht |
Respondent: | Anna Adamska, Onderzoekinstituut voor Geschiedenis en Kunstgeschiedenis, Universiteit Utrecht |
Paper 1509-a | Last Wills of Medieval Transylvanian Burghers (Language: English) Index terms: Literacy and Orality, Religious Life, Social History |
Paper 1509-b | Urban Testaments in Medieval Poland: Researches Present and Future (Language: English) Index terms: Literacy and Orality, Religious Life, Social History |
Abstract | The papers concern the last wills and testaments of town dwellers in Transylvania and medieval Poland, the information they shed on the development of literacy, the development of literate mentalities, and the development of religious sentiment. |