IMC 2018: Sessions
Session 633: Communication and the Exploitation of Knowledge, II: Charters as an Instrument and Mirror of Collective Memory in Transalpine Europe - The Low Countries and Poland in Comparative Perspective
Tuesday 3 July 2018, 11.15-12.45
| Sponsor: | Onderzoeksschool Mediëvistiek, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen |
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| Organiser: | Mark Vermeer, Departement Geschiedenis en Kunstgeschiedenis, Universiteit Utrecht |
| Moderator/Chair: | Beata Możejko, Zakład Historii Średniowiecza Polski i Nauk Pomocniczych Historii, Uniwersytet Gdański |
| Respondent: | Herwig Weigl, Institut für Österreichische Geschichtsforschung / Institut für Geschichte, Universität Wien |
| Paper 633-a | Littera vel prothocolla: The Legal Power of Charters and Registers in Late Medieval Rural Brabant (Language: English) Index terms: Archives and Sources, Charters and Diplomatics, Language and Literature - Dutch, Literacy and Orality |
| Paper 633-b | Ideas about the Nature of Memory in the Preambles of Episcopal Charters in Late Medieval Poland (Language: English) Index terms: Archives and Sources, Charters and Diplomatics, Ecclesiastical History |
| Paper 633-c | Digging in the Chests: Charters and Archives as Instruments of Political Claims in 15th-Century Poland (Language: English) Index terms: Archives and Sources, Charters and Diplomatics, Language and Literature - Latin, Literacy and Orality |
| Abstract | Organised from the NWO project 'Communication and Exploitation of Knowledge in the Middle Ages', this series of papers aims to discuss a variety of instances of public or collective memory. Memory is the basis for knowledge; for a fruitful mass communication of knowledge, it needs to connect to elements in the collective memory. Since their earliest appearance, charters have been used as carriers of public memory, both in content and in form. This session presents several cases of the role of charters in conveying this memory, comparing the Low Countries with Poland. |