IMC 2008: Sessions
Session 209: Problems and Possibilities of Early Medieval Diplomatic, I: Modes and Practices of Document Writing
Monday 7 July 2008, 14.15-15.45
Organiser: | Jonathan Jarrett, Fitzwilliam Museum University of Cambridge 1 Lingholme Close CAMBRIDGE CB4 3HW |
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Moderator/Chair: | Simon MacLean, Department of History, Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge |
Paper 209-a | Modes of Writing Northern Iberian Charters in the 9th and 10th Centuries (Language: English) Index terms: Archives and Sources, Charters and Diplomatics, Social History |
Paper 209-b | Writing Charters, Writing Books: Being a St Gall Scribe around 820 (Language: English) Index terms: Archives and Sources, Charters and Diplomatics, Monasticism |
Paper 209-c | Superlatives in Anglo-Saxon Charters (Language: English) Index terms: Charters and Diplomatics, Politics and Diplomacy |
Abstract | Reopening questions on the uses and problems of charter evidence, this Problems and Possibilities session covers the composition and redaction of the documents themselves. Davies studies the use (or not) of formulas in charter redaction in early medieval Northern Spain and shows that style varied with the social status of transactors. Zeller shows how St Gallen monks took over charter production from non-monastic scribes as part of the reorganisation of writing in the monastery. Lastly Trousdale uses the rarity of the superlative voice in Anglo-Saxon royal charters to illustrate significances that its particular emphasis may have expressed in them. |