IMC 2009: Sessions
Session 205: Medieval Urban Literacy, I: Dispute Settlement in Town and Countryside
Monday 13 July 2009, 14.15-15.45
Sponsor: | Medieval Urban Literacy Project |
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Organiser: | Marco Mostert, Onderzoekinstituut voor Geschiedenis en Kunstgeschiedenis, Universiteit Utrecht |
Moderator/Chair: | Marco Mostert, Onderzoekinstituut voor Geschiedenis en Kunstgeschiedenis, Universiteit Utrecht |
Paper 205-a | Why Study Medieval Urban Literacy? (Language: English) Index terms: Literacy and Orality, Mentalities |
Paper 205-b | Long Distance Complaints: The Role of Writing in Disputes between Taxpayers and State Servants in the Abbasid Empire in 10th-Century Iraq (Language: English) Index terms: Administration, Islamic and Arabic Studies, Literacy and Orality |
Abstract | The session aims at analysing the use of writing in the recording and the resolution of conflicts within a comparative perspective. It will discuss the differences and similarities between dispute settlements in cities and the countryside and the use of writing in relation to other forms of communication used in the processes of mitigating disorder. |