TY - BOOK ID - 46224762 TI - Documenting the everyday in medieval Europe : the social dimensions of a writing revolution 1250-1350 AU - Bertrand, Paul AU - Edwards, Graham PY - 2019 VL - 42 SN - 20349416 SN - 9782503579900 2503579906 9782503582467 250358246X PB - Turnhout : Brepols, DB - UniCat KW - Manuscripts, Medieval KW - Writing KW - Literacy KW - History. KW - History KW - France KW - Benelux countries KW - Social conditions KW - Social conditions. KW - Literacy. KW - Manuscripts, Medieval. KW - Writing. KW - To 1515. KW - Benelux countries. KW - France. KW - Diplomatics KW - Written communication KW - Paleography, French. KW - Paleography, Belgian KW - Diplomatique KW - Communication écrite KW - Ecriture KW - Paléographie française KW - Paléographie belge KW - Social aspects KW - Histoire KW - Aspect social KW - 091:3 KW - 930.272 KW - 091.14:655.26 KW - 091:028 KW - 091:028 Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi-:-Lezen. Lectuur KW - Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi-:-Lezen. Lectuur KW - Codicologie. Codices. Scriptoria-:-Typografie. Grafisch ontwerp en lay-out KW - 930.272 Paleografie KW - Paleografie KW - 091:3 Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi-:-Maatschappijwetenschappen. Sociale wetenschappen KW - Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi-:-Maatschappijwetenschappen. Sociale wetenschappen KW - Non-fiction KW - History as a science KW - History of civilization KW - History of Europe KW - anno 1200-1299 KW - anno 1300-1399 KW - Social aspects. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:46224762 AB - This book explores the complex relations between the written word and medieval society by focusing on the proliferation of administrative and business documents during the so-called 'long thirteenth century'. It deals with northern France and the area covered by the historic Low Countries, but places these regions in a broader European context and in the general history of literacy. Based on an exhaustive first-hand analysis of numerous archives and many document types, and featuring over a hundred illustrations, this book presents the reader with a large sample of documentary sources. But it also presents important hypotheses regarding literacy and the sociological dimensions of writing in the Middle Ages. Using codicology, palaeography, and diplomatics, it offers a general outline of a key period in the history of literacy which, with hindsight, can be shown to have transformed the Middle Ages. Further, as the documents that are discussed were used in everyday life, they also have a significant social dimension. At first, these documents were not backed by a clear legal authority; there were no extant rules, formulas, or structural frameworks to which they needed to conform. Thus they shed new light on the men and women who had to learn to make, keep, and use them. ER -