IMC 2015: Sessions
Session 1541: Cartularies, between Weapons and Tools: A Reassessment, I
Thursday 9 July 2015, 09.00-10.30
| Sponsor: | Université Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve / Centre de recherche pratiques médiévales de l'écrit (PraME), Université de Namur |
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| Organiser: | Paul Bertrand, Faculté de Philosophie, Arts et Lettres, Université catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve |
| Moderator/Chair: | Paul Bertrand, Faculté de Philosophie, Arts et Lettres, Université catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve |
| Paper 1541-a | Cartularies between Weapons and Tools: The Mutations of a Genre (Language: English) Index terms: Charters and Diplomatics, Literacy and Orality |
| Paper 1541-b | Circumstances and Motives for Preparation of Cartularies at the End of the Middle Ages: Some Examples Issued from the Diocese of Liège (Language: English) Index terms: Charters and Diplomatics, Literacy and Orality |
| Abstract | Cartularies are a documentary genre very well studied since decades by specialists of literacy studies for the Middle Ages. A lot of scholars have noticed that cartularies play an important role in the construction of written memory for institutions, which used them as weapons in conflicts or religious reforms. Other have stressed the usefulness of cartularies to help the institution which created and owned them, in the administration of their wealth and of their heritage: here, they are used as tools. Time has come to attempt a reassessment and to confront the two points of view, in the frame proposed by the congress around 'reform'. These sessions want to propose a first step to that reassessment, around studies by young doctoral and postdoctoral students in Belgium and in France. |