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Title

Charters, cartularies and archives : the preservation and transmission of documents in the medieval west : proceedings of a colloquium of the Commission internationale de diplomatique (Princeton and New York, 16-18 September 1999) / edited by Adam J. Kosto and Anders Winroth.

Publication

Toronto, Ontario, Canada : Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, c2002.

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Additional Authors

• Winroth, Anders
• Kosto, Adam J.
• Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies
• Commission internationale de diplomatique

Description

x, 185 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Summary

"Charters are among the richest sources for the history of medieval Europe. The historical sub-discipline of diplomatics is devoted to the study of these documents. In Charters, Cartularies, and Archives, a distinguished international group of diplomatists address thirteen cases of transmission and preservation of medieval documents. A recurrent theme in the volume is the actual preservation of individual charters, but the content of originals was transmitted in other ways as well. Several chapters discuss questions relating to recopied originals, cartularies, and a range of other archival practices for retaining documents during the Middle Ages. Many of the authors focus on how documents were organized in archives and in cartularies during the period. Others discuss the notions of 'original document' and 'copy' - both their relationship to each other, and to the legal validity of the document in question. The volume ranges over a wide chronological and geographical scope, with contributions spread across Europe and the Middle Ages from the eighth-century Lombard kingdom to late medieval Douai. Several chapters focus on institutions in medieval France, but areas such as Scandinavia, Bohemia, and Italy are also represented."--

Series Statement

Papers in mediaeval studies ; 17

Uniform Title

Papers in mediaeval studies 17.

Alternative Title

• Preservation and transmission of documents in the medieval west
• Preservation and transmission of documents in the medieval West

Subject

• To 1500
• Cartularies > Congresses
• Charters > History > To 1500 > Congresses
• Middle Ages > Sources > Congresses
• Cartulaires > Congrès
• Chartres > Histoire > Jusqu'à 1500 > Congrès
• Moyen Âge > Histoire > Sources > Congrès
• Europe > History > 476-1492 > Sources > Congresses
• Europe > Histoire > 476-1492 > Sources > Congrès

Genre/Form

• Conference papers and proceedings
• History

Note

• Papers in English, French, and Italian.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Foreword / Giles Constable, Robert Somerville -- Ambitions d'origine et les positions actuelles de la Commission internationale de diplomatique / Walter Prevenier -- Originale, authenticum, publicum: una sciarada per il documento diplomatico / Giovanna Nicolaj -- Monastic cartularies: organizing eternity / Constance B. Bouchard -- Transmission of Lombard documents (to 774) / Herbert Zielinski -- Towards an archaeology of the medieval charter: textual production and reproduction in northern French chartriers / Brigitte Bedos-Rezak -- Contribution of diplomatics to the identification of an early-eleventh-century aquitanian narrative / George T. Beech -- Tradition de l'ombre: les actes sous le regard des archivistes médiévaux (Saint-Denis, XIIe-XVe siècle) / Olivier Guyotjeannin -- Originaux et copies: la reproduction des éléments graphiques des actes des Xe et XIe siècles dans la cartulaire de Cluny / Hartmut Atsma and Jean Vezin -- Étienne de Gallardon and the Carulary of Bourges (abstract) / John Baldwin -- Earliest comital cartulary from Champagne / Theodore Evergates -- Cartularies and the preservation of documents in the archives of the Bohemian Crown before the Hussite Revolution / Ivan Hlaváček -- Documenting the ordinary: the Actes de la pratique of late medieval Douai / Martha C. Howell -- Observations on entry and copying in the cartularies with charters of the province of North Brabant (abstract) / Geertrui Van Synghel -- Papal letters to Scandinavia and their preservation / Anders Winroth.

ISBN

0888448171

OCLC

• 50185918
• SCSB-11048719

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library