IMC 2019: Sessions
Session 1241: Text as Material Artefacts, III: Pragmatic Materiality - Forms and Shapes of Administration
Wednesday 3 July 2019, 14.15-15.45
| Organiser: | Sébastien Barret, Institut de Recherche et d'Histoire des Textes (IRHT), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Paris |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Georg Vogeler, Zentrum für Informationsmodellierung in den Geisteswissenschaften, Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz |
| Paper 1241-a | A Simple Calculation?: Genre and Materiality of Late Medieval Accounts (Language: English) Index terms: Administration, Charters and Diplomatics, Economics - General, Manuscripts and Palaeography |
| Paper 1241-b | The Lives and Times of Charters in the Lambach Monastery (Language: English) Index terms: Administration, Archives and Sources, Charters and Diplomatics, Manuscripts and Palaeography |
| Paper 1241-c | The Materiality of Medieval Documents through Their Copies in the 15th and 16th Centuries in Santiago de Compostela's Church: Imitation or Reinterpretation? (Language: English) Index terms: Administration, Archives and Sources, Charters and Diplomatics, Manuscripts and Palaeography |
| Paper 1241-d | Medieval Texts between Historical Methodology and Archeological Approach: What Historians Can Learn From Archaeological Materials (Language: English) Index terms: Administration, Archaeology - General, Archives and Sources, Charters and Diplomatics |
| Abstract | Charters and administrative documents are prone to radically change their material form in the course of their existence and along the history of their manuscript tradition. They belong to the relatively few documents which it is perfectly normal to create, find, use and preserve as single-sheet units, as parts of a codex, as documents added to a codex, a passages on a roll… This might be a one the reasons why they are always included in the often-changing definitions of pragmatic literacy and/or documents. At any rate, this leads to them assuming diverse material incarnations, from a ‘codicological’ as well as from a ‘palaeographical’ point of view. This session bases on the assumption that these various forms should be fully part of the historical analysis and not be considered as mere contingencies. The documents get copied, formed and re-formed in ways which are neither neutral nor innocent and directly affect their use, their reception and their very nature. The present session aims at shedding light on these different aspects, considering the documents themselves as well as their treatment at the hands of users, archivists, and historians. |