Writing and the Administration of Medieval Towns: Medieval Urban Literacy I

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In medieval towns, written statements of law and administration appear more prevalent than in non-urban spaces. Certain urban milieus participating in written culture, however, have been the focus of more scholarship than others. Considering the variety among town dwellers, we may assume that literacy skills differed from one social group to another. This raises several questions: Did attitudes towards the written word result from an experience of the urban educational system? On which levels, and in which registers, did different groups of people have access to writing? The need and the usefulness of written texts may not have been the same for communities and for individuals. In this volume we concentrate on the institutional written records that were most indispensable to communal order, including collections of written law, charters of liberties, and municipal registers. Front Matter ("Editorial Board", "Title Page", "Copyright Page", "Table of Contents", "Preface", "Maps"), p. i Free Access Introduction, p. 1 Marco Mostert, Anna Adamska https://doi.org/10.1484/M.USML-EB.1.101925 Producing, Using, and Keeping Records in Medieval Swedish Towns, p. 13 Inger Larsson https://doi.org/10.1484/M.USML-EB.1.101926 The Use of Records in Medieval Towns: The Case of ’s-Hertogenbosch (Brabant), p. 31 Geertrui van Synghel https://doi.org/10.1484/M.USML-EB.1.101927 The Use of Records in Medieval Towns: The Case of Bolzano, South Tyrol, p. 49 Hannes Obermair https://doi.org/10.1484/M.USML-EB.1.101928 Urban Chanceries in the Kingdom of Castile in the Late Middle Ages, p. 69 José Miguel López-Villalba https://doi.org/10.1484/M.USML-EB.1.101929 Urban Administrative Literacy in the Northeastern Low Countries: A Comparison of Groningen, Kampen, Deventer, and Zutphen, Twelfth-Fifteenth Centuries, p. 97 Jeroen F. Benders https://doi.org/10.1484/M.USML-EB.1.101930 Towns and the Written Word in Medieval Hungary, p. 123 Katalin Szende https://doi.org/10.1484/M.USML-EB.1.101931 Urban Literacy in Small Polish Towns and the Process of ‘Modernisation’ in the Later Middle Ages, p. 149 Agnieszka Bartoszewicz https://doi.org/10.1484/M.USML-EB.1.101932 Writing and Social Evidence ‘Before the Archives’: Revealing and Concealing the Written in Late Medieval Lüneburg, p. 185 Andreas Litschel https://doi.org/10.1484/M.USML-EB.1.101933 The Political Implications of Urban Archival Documents in the Late Medieval Flemish Cities: The Example of the Diary of Ghent, p. 209 Hannes Lowagie https://doi.org/10.1484/M.USML-EB.1.101934 Civic Literacy in Later Medieval England, p. 219 Sarah Rees Jones https://doi.org/10.1484/M.USML-EB.1.101935 Urban Literacy and Urban Secrecy? Some New Approaches to an Old Problem, p. 231 Michael Jucker https://doi.org/10.1484/M.USML-EB.1.101936 Trust, Secrecy, and Control in the Medieval Italian Communes, p. 243 Christoph Friedrich Weber https://doi.org/10.1484/M.USML-EB.1.101937 A Technique to Ensure Safety: the cedulae inclusae of Strasbourg, Berne, and Basel during the Burgundian Wars (1468-1477), p. 267 Bastian Walter https://doi.org/10.1484/M.USML-EB.1.101938 The Professional Formation of Public Notaries in Dalmatia from the Second Half of the Twelfth Century to the End of the Fourteenth Century, p. 285 Branka Grbavac https://doi.org/10.1484/M.USML-EB.1.101939 “Laborem circumspecti domini notarii”: Town Notaries in Early Modern Transylvania, p. 313 Ágnes Flóra https://doi.org/10.1484/M.USML-EB.1.101940 Some Thoughts on Urban Schools, Urban Literacy, and the Development of Western Civilisation, p. 337 Marco Mostert https://doi.org/10.1484/M.USML-EB.1.101941 Back Matter ("Index"), p. 349