IMC 2026: Sessions
Session 113: Notarial Registers in Late Medieval Castile: Between Temporality and Perpetuity
Monday 6 July 2026, 11:15-12:45
| Sponsor: | 'Notariado y construcción social de la realidad, II: los registros notariales medievales' (NotFor II - PID2023-146105NB-I00, financiado por MICIU/AEI/10.13039/501100011033 y por FEDER, UE) |
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| Organiser: | Pilar Ostos Salcedo, Departamento de Historia Medieval y Ciencias y Técnicas Historiográficas, Universidad de Sevilla |
| Moderator/Chair: | Miguel Calleja Puerta, Departamento de Historia, Universidad de Oviedo |
| Paper 113-a | The Passage of Time in Registers: Traces of Use in the Notarial Registers of Andalusia in the 15th Century (Language: English) Index terms: Archives and Sources, Charters and Diplomatics, Law |
| Paper 113-b | The Measurement of Time in Notarial Registers from Ávila: Ávila and Fuente el Sol, 1465-1482 (Language: English) Index terms: Archives and Sources, Charters and Diplomatics, Law |
| Paper 113-c | The Length of Legal Contracts in the Notarial Registers of San Andrés de Espinareda, 1471-1488 (Language: English) Index terms: Archives and Sources, Charters and Diplomatics, Law |
| Abstract | Medieval notarial registers reflect all the activity of a notary public over a given period, thus offering a complete picture of their entire activity. On the one hand, they contain deeds that are perpetual, for which time does not pass in principle, such as sales, which establish boundaries and end up constituting a property register. On the other hand, there are deeds in which temporality is key, because they “expire” at a previously set time, such as leases or credit transactions. But in addition, the register is a living instrument, reflecting the changes of the reality in which it exists, and the traces of these changes are recorded in its pages. Throughout this session, three presentations will be given analysing different cases from 15th-century Castilian notarial registers. |