IMC 2015: Sessions
Session 1639: Offices and Uses of Writing in Iberian Cities, 12th-16th Centuries, I
Thursday 9 July 2015, 11.15-12.45
| Sponsor: | 'Escritura y ciudad en la Corona de Castilla (siglos XIII-XVII)' (HAR2012-32298) Research Project |
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| Organiser: | Pilar Ostos Salcedo, Departamento de Historia Medieval y Ciencias y Técnicas Historiográficas, Universidad de Sevilla |
| Moderator/Chair: | Maria Josefa Sanz Fuentes, Departamento de Historia, Universidad de Oviedo |
| Paper 1639-a | Los escribanos públicos de Sevilla ante el cambio gráfico (s. XV in.) (Language: Español) Index terms: Charters and Diplomatics, Manuscripts and Palaeography |
| Paper 1639-b | Who Writes What in Medieval Porto? (Language: English) Index terms: Charters and Diplomatics, Manuscripts and Palaeography |
| Paper 1639-c | From Country Clerici to Urban Chanceries in 13th-Century Asturias (Language: English) Index terms: Charters and Diplomatics, Literacy and Orality, Manuscripts and Palaeography |
| Abstract | The aim of this panel is to analyse the origin and early development of local bureacratic organizations in medieval Iberia. The 13th century witnessed the conquest of Cordoba or Seville from Muslim hands, as well as the growth of old Christian cities, and the spread of small towns to regions which had previously lacked urban communities. This process ran concurrently with the renewal of diplomatic writing and the practices of preservation of records. The goal of this session is to explain the emergence of medieval urban literacy in such diverse and distant cities as Sevilla, Porto, and Oviedo. |