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Title

The roles of medieval chanceries : negotiating rules of political communication / edited by Christina Antenhofer and Mark Mersiowsky.

Publication

Turnhout : Brepols, 2021.

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Additional Authors

• Antenhofer, Christina
• Mersiowsky, Mark

Description

viii, 198 pages : illustrations (black and white); 23 cm.

Summary

Medieval (political) communication followed rules that were defined, negotiated, and altered in processes of exchange. Conflicts resulting from different communication practices, as well as forms of innovation, revolve around rules that are not self-evident. Political actors such as princes and cities, chanceries, secretaries, ambassadors, and councillors formed rules of political participation, which became visible in written documentation. These rules were both formed and negotiated via processes of communication (a practice-oriented understanding of political participation). Medieval chanceries can thus be understood as a vast field of experimentation where different solutions were tested, passed on, or discarded.00This book explores communication practices in German, French, Italian, Tyrolian, and Gorizian chanceries, as well as at diets from the tenth to the sixteenth century. Its chapters examine royal, monastic, princely, and communal chanceries. For the early and high Middle Ages, a close analysis of documents will reconstruct negotiation and communication from within the documents themselves. For the later Middle Ages, focus will turn to the chancery, with the appearance of chancery orders and chancery annotations that provide explicit insight in communication between the chancellors, secretaries, and political authorities (princes or cities). The growing amount and variety of documents issued in the late Middle Ages allows us to retrace conflicts resulting from differing chancery practices as well as attempts to reorganise the chancery into a political instrument for the prince.00The processes of political communication will be followed in three parts. Part I focuses on the rules within documents. Part II looks at administrative processes within specific chanceries, while Part III explores forms of exchange between the chancery and other political actors.

Series Statement

Utrecht Studies in Medieval Literacy (USML) ; 51

Uniform Title

Utrecht studies in medieval literacy ; 51.

Subject

• To 1500
• Communication in politics > History > To 1500
• Literacy > History > To 1500
• Communication in politics
• Literacy

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Call Number

JFE 21-6333

ISBN

• 9782503589640
• 2503589642

OCLC

1263804710

Title

The roles of medieval chanceries : negotiating rules of political communication / edited by Christina Antenhofer and Mark Mersiowsky.

Publisher

Turnhout : Brepols, 2021.

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Utrecht Studies in Medieval Literacy (USML) ; 51

Utrecht studies in medieval literacy ; 51.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chronological Term

To 1500

Added Author

Antenhofer, Christina, editor. Editor

Mersiowsky, Mark, editor. Editor

Research Call Number

JFE 21-6333