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The twenty essays brought together in this volume explore a wide range of perspectives relating to the materiality and textuality of medieval scripts and documents.The textuality and materiality of documents are an essential part of their communicative role. Medieval writing, as part of the interpersonal communication process, had to follow rules to ensure the legibility and understanding of a text and its connotations. This volume provides new insights into how different kinds of rules were designed, established, and followed in the shaping of medieval documents, as a means of enabling complex and subtle communicational phenomena. Because they provide a perspective for approaching the material they are supposed to organize, these rules (or the postulation of their use) provide powerful analytical tools for structural studies into given corpora of documents. Originating in talks given at the International Medieval Congress in Leeds between 2010 and 2012, the twenty papers in this collection offer a precise, in-depth analysis of a variety of medieval scripts, including books, charters, accounts, and epigraphic documents. In doing so, they integrate current developments in palaeography, diplomatics, and codicology in their traditional methodological set, as well as aspects of the digital humanities, and they bridge the gap between the so-called ‘auxiliary sciences of history’ and the field of communication studies. They illustrate different possibilities for exploring how the formal aspects of scripts took their place in the construction of effective communication structures.

Paleography. --- Diplomatics. --- Written communication --- History --- 091.14 --- 003.08 --- 091.01 --- 003.074 --- 003.074 Diplomatisch schrijven. Schrijven van verslagen, akten, oorkonden en charters. Officieel schrijven --- Diplomatisch schrijven. Schrijven van verslagen, akten, oorkonden en charters. Officieel schrijven --- Schrift. Het schrijven van handschriften. --- 003.08 Kenmerken van het schrijven. Basistekens. Letters. Alfabet --- Kenmerken van het schrijven. Basistekens. Letters. Alfabet --- 091.14 Codicologie. Codices. Scriptoria --- Codicologie. Codices. Scriptoria --- Schrift. Het schrijven van handschriften --- Manuscripts. Epigraphy. Paleography --- History as a science --- Paléographie --- Diplomatique --- Communication écrite --- Histoire --- Paléographie --- Communication écrite --- Middle Ages --- Congresses --- Paléographie. --- Paléographie.

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The principal aim of this book is to assess Anglo-Saxon charters from a 'literary' point of view. In the ninth century, a new and highly complex Latin style started to appear in Anglo-Saxon charters: rather than writing traditional, straightforward legal language, the authors of these documents turned to their Anglo-Saxon literary heritage for inspiration, and began to fill their charters with complex and archaic vocabulary, extensive metaphors and lurid imagery. Dr Snook offers a thorough discussion of why and how this seemingly inappropriate style was adopted, throwing light on a range of broader issues, including the place of the documents in the wider intellectual history of tenth-century England, and their role in promoting the ideologies of different Anglo-Saxon kings. Benjamin Snook gained his doctorate from Cambridge University.

091 =71 --- 091 <41> --- 930.22 <41> --- 003.074 --- Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--Latijn --- Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland --- Bronnenstudie. Oorkondenleer. Diplomatiek--Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland --- Diplomatisch schrijven. Schrijven van verslagen, akten, oorkonden en charters. Officieel schrijven --- 003.074 Diplomatisch schrijven. Schrijven van verslagen, akten, oorkonden en charters. Officieel schrijven --- 930.22 <41> Bronnenstudie. Oorkondenleer. Diplomatiek--Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland --- 091 <41> Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland --- 091 =71 Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--Latijn --- Charters --- Law, anglo-saxon. --- Law / essays. --- Law / general practice. --- Law / jurisprudence. --- Law / paralegals & paralegalism. --- Law / practical guides. --- Law / reference. --- Charters. --- Literary criticism / medieval. --- History --- 449-1066. --- Great Britain --- Great Britain. --- Law, Anglo-Saxon. --- Documents --- Cartularies --- Deeds --- Diplomatics --- Incorporation --- Archives --- Certificates of incorporation --- Manuscripts --- Anglo-Saxon law --- Law and legislation --- Law, Anglo-Saxon --- Law --- Diplomatics, Latin --- Language. --- Language --- Latin diplomatics --- Acts, Legislative --- Enactments, Legislative --- Laws (Statutes) --- Legislative acts --- Legislative enactments --- Jurisprudence --- Legislation --- Administrative State. --- Anglo-Saxon Charters. --- Anglo-Saxon Kings. --- Bureaucracy. --- Early Medieval Insular World. --- Land Ownership. --- Latin Language. --- Political Power. --- Royal Court.