Ruling the Script in the Middle Ages: Formal Aspects of Written Communication (Books, Charters, and Inscriptions)

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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. Front Matter ("Contents", "Preface"), p. i Free Access Introduction, p. 1 Sébastien Barret, Dominique Stutzmann, Georg Vogeler https://doi.org/10.1484/M.USML-EB.5.112428 “Et hec scripsi manu mea propria”: Known and Unknown Autographs of Charles IV as Testimonies of Intellectual Profile, Royal Literacy, and Cultural Transfer, p. 25 Martin Bauch https://doi.org/10.1484/M.USML-EB.5.112429 The ‘Empire of Letters’: Textualis and Cursiva in Pragmatic Manuscripts of Seville Cathedral, Thirteenth-Fifteenth Centuries, p. 49 Diego Belmonte Fernández https://doi.org/10.1484/M.USML-EB.5.112430 Official Rules of Writing in the North of France? The Writing of Notarial Documents in Normandy between Practices and Regulations, p. 75 Isabelle Bretthauer https://doi.org/10.1484/M.USML-EB.5.112431 The Practice of Writing in Regensburg: An Overview of the Ninth and Tenth Centuries, p. 95 Claire De Cazanove https://doi.org/10.1484/M.USML-EB.5.112432 Structure et style: observations paléographiques pour l’étude des écritures cursives à Florence aux XIIIe et XIVe siècles, p. 109 Irene Ceccherini https://doi.org/10.1484/M.USML-EB.5.112433 Revealing Some Structures and Rules of Book Production (France, Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries), p. 131 Émilie Cottereau-Gabillet https://doi.org/10.1484/M.USML-EB.5.112434 Structures of (Mutual) Inspiration: Some Observations on the Circulation of Repetitive Text Formulas in Charters from the Medieval Low Countries (Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries), p. 167 Els De Paermentier https://doi.org/10.1484/M.USML-EB.5.112435 The Writing of Obedientiary Account Rolls at Norwich Cathedral Priory (1256-1344), p. 197 Harmony Dewez https://doi.org/10.1484/M.USML-EB.5.112436 Charte de fondation et date de dédicace: témoignages narratifs et diplomatiques à l’abbaye Saint-Étienne de Caen, p. 227 Tamiko Fournier-Fujimoto https://doi.org/10.1484/M.USML-EB.5.112437 Masters of Micrography: Examples of Medieval Ashkenazi Scribal Artists, p. 255 Rahel Fronda https://doi.org/10.1484/M.USML-EB.5.112438 Writing Angles: Palaeographic Considerations on the Inclinaison of the Script, p. 283 Maria Gurrado https://doi.org/10.1484/M.USML-EB.5.112439 Les actes épiscopaux en Bretagne aux XIe et XIIe siècles: une arme pour la réforme?, p. 299 Cyprien Henry https://doi.org/10.1484/M.USML-EB.5.112440 Königsfelden Abbey and its First Cartulary: Dealing with Charters in the Fourteenth Century, p. 331 Tobias Hodel https://doi.org/10.1484/M.USML-EB.5.112441 The Use of the Vernacular and its Graphic and Material Shape in the Epigraphic Discourse: Three Case Studies from Western France, p. 357 Estelle Ingrand-Varenne https://doi.org/10.1484/M.USML-EB.5.112442 The Shape of the Letters and the Dynamics of Composition in Syriac Manuscripts (Fifth-Tenth Century), p. 379 Ayda Kaplan https://doi.org/10.1484/M.USML-EB.5.112443 The Parchments of Marmoutier Abbey: Preparation, Shaping, Practices (Mid-Eleventh to Mid-Twelfth Century), p. 399 Claire Lamy https://doi.org/10.1484/M.USML-EB.5.112444 Scribal Activity and Diplomatic Forms in Western Provence (c. 950-c. 1010), p. 427 Jean-Baptiste Renault https://doi.org/10.1484/M.USML-EB.5.112445 Hand Spotting: The Registers of the Chancery of the Counts of Holland, 1316-1337, p. 477 Jinna Smit https://doi.org/10.1484/M.USML-EB.5.112446 Rule and Variation in Eleventh-Century English Minuscule, p. 489 Peter Stokes https://doi.org/10.1484/M.USML-EB.5.112447 Princely Communication in the Late Thirteenth and Early Fourteenth Century: A Diplomatic Study of the Charters of the Counts of Hainaut, p. 509 Valeria Van Camp https://doi.org/10.1484/M.USML-EB.5.112448 Back Matter ("List of Shelfmarks"), p. 539