Between public and private: writing praxis in Transylvania during the XIII-XVII centuries von Susana Andea, Avram Andea, Adinel Dinca

Kategorie: Bücher
Seiten / Format: 363 S.; gebundene Ausgabe
Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
Verlag: Argonaut
Sprache: Englisch
ISBN: 9781988192154

Table of Contents\nForeword ............................................................................................................ 7\nAbbreviations ................................................................................................... 17\nLidia GROSS\nMedieval Places of Authentication in Transylvania from 13th to 16th Century. The\nPremonstratensian Convent of Dealul Orazii ........................................................... 21\nAssertion .......................................................................................................... 21\nI. About the places of authentication ........................................................... 22\n1. Characteristics .............................................................................. 22\n2. Chancery and archive ................................................................. 26\n3. Typology of documents ............................................................... 29\nII. Places of authentication in Transylvania ................................................ 36\nIII. Premonstratensian Convent from Dealul Orazii .................................. 42\n1. Brief history ................................................................................... 42\n2. Activity as place of authentication ............................................. 43\n3. Types of documents ..................................................................... 48\n4. General comments ....................................................................... 58\n5. Chancery and archive .................................................................. 60\nIV. Conclusions ............................................................................................... 62\nAnnex 1-3 ......................................................................................................... 64\nAdinel C. DINCA\nUrban Literacy in Medieval Transylvania ................................................................. 77\nI. Introduction ..................................................................................................77\nII. Town and written word in medieval Transylvania ..................................... 84\n1. Hungarian and Transylvanian medieval urban context ............... 85\n2. Beginnings of urban pragmatic literacy in Transylvania .............. 90\n3. Seals as means of validation ................................................................ 94\n4. Urban scribes in Transylvania: town notaries ............................... 101\n5. Notaries public and the urban office ............................................... 142\n6. Town officials and pragmatic literacy ............................................ 145\n7. Town archives ..................................................................................... 151\n8. Typology of urban pragmatic texts ................................................. 158\nIII. Conclusions ....................................................................................................... 172\nAnnex ....................................................................................................................... 178\nLivia MAGINA\nCounty and District Jurisdiction: Between Orality and Writing .......................... 193\nI County and district – history and evolution ........................................... 194\nII Pragmatic literacy ..................................................................................... 203\n1 Administrative writing ............................................................... 207\n2 Administrative and military writs ............................................ 210\n3 County writing: a quantitative situation .................................. 214\nIII Literate staff .............................................................................................. 225\nIV Between writing and orality, from the representatives of the authority\nto the population ......................................................................................................... 240\nV Preserving memory .................................................................................. 243\nVI Material support ...................................................................................... 245\nVII Seal authentication ................................................................................. 248\nVIII Final Considerations ............................................................................ 253\nAnnex ............................................................................................................. 256\nAvram ANDEA\nMedieval Latin Writing and Vernacular Languages ............................................. 267\nI The origin and character of Latin culture in Transylvania .................... 267\nII Premises for the written affirmation of vernacular languages ............ 273\nIII Beginning of writing in vernacular ....................................................... 279\nIV Translations, documents and letters ..................................................... 290\nV Conclusions ............................................................................................... 292\nSusana ANDEA\nEpistolary Writing Practices in Transylvania during the 16th and 17th Centuries\n....................................................................................................................................... 293\nI Historical considerations regarding epistolary writing......................... 293\nII Textbooks, formulary books .................................................................... 295\nIII Epistolae or Litterae Missiles, Charta, Scriptum?...................................... 298\nIV Litterae missiles in the debates of General Assemblies ......................... 315\nV Correspondence, epistles........................................................................ 319\n1 Official correspondence ............................................................. 320\n2 Political and diplomatic correspondence ................................. 322\n3 Legal and administrative correspondence ............................... 333\n4 Familial correspondence ............................................................ 343\nVI Women and epistolary exchange .......................................................... 353\nVII Transmission of correspondence ......................................................... 359\nVIII Conclusions ........................................................................................... 362

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