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PAPERS IN MEDIAEVAL STUDIES 17
Charters, Cartularies, and Archives:
The Preservation and Transmission of
Documents in the Medieval West
Proceedings of a Colloquium
of the
Commission Internationale de Diplomatique
(Princeton and New York, 16-18 September 1999)
edited by
Adam J. Kosto and Anders Winroth
Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies
National Library of Canada Cataloguing in Publication
Charters, cartularies, and archives : the preservation and
transmission of documents in the medieval west : proceedings of the
Commission internationale de diplomatique (Princeton and New York,
16-18 September 1999) / edited by Adam J. Kosto and Anders Winroth.
(Papers in mediaeval studies 17)
ISBN 0-88844-817-1
1. Cartularies–Congresses.
2. Charters–History–To 1500–
Congresses. 3. Europe–History–476-1492–Sources–Congresses.
4. Middle Ages–History–Sources–Congresses.
I. Kosto, Adam J.
II. Winroth, Anders.
III. Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies.
IV. Commision internationale de diplomatique.
V. Series.
D113.C48 2002
940.1
C2002-903308-X
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Contents
Abbreviations
Participants
Foreword
Giles Constable and Robert Somerville
vii
viii
ix
Les ambitions d’origine et les positions actuelles de la Commission
internationale de diplomatique
Walter Prevenier
1
Originale, authenticum, publicum: Una sciarada per il documento
diplomatico
Giovanna Nicolaj
8
Monastic Cartularies: Organizing Eternity
Constance B. Bouchard
22
The Transmission of Lombard Documents (to 774)
Herbert Zielinski
33
Towards an Archaeology of the Medieval Charter: Textual
Production and Reproduction in Northern French Chartriers
Brigitte Bedos-Rezak
43
The Contribution of Diplomatics to the Identification
of an Early-Eleventh-Century Aquitanian Narrative
George T. Beech
61
La tradition de l’ombre: Les actes sous le regard des archivistes
médiévaux (Saint-Denis, XIIe-XVe siècle)
Olivier Guyotjeannin
81
Originaux et copies: La reproductions des éléments graphiques
des actes des Xe et Xie siècles dans le cartulaire de Cluny
Hartmut Atsma and Jean Vezin
113
Étienne de Gallardon and the Cartulary of Bourges (Abstract)
John Baldwin
127
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CONTENTS
The Earliest Comital Cartulary from Champagne
Theodore Evergates
128
Cartularies and the Preservation of Documents in the Archives
of the Bohemian Crown before the Hussite Revolution
Ivan Hlavácek
137
Documenting the Ordinary: The Actes de la Pratique of Late
Medieval Douai
Martha C. Howell
151
Observations on Entry and Copying the Cartularies with
Charters of the Province of North Brabant (Abstract)
Geertrui Van Synghel
174
Papal Letters to Scandinavia and Their Preservation
Anders Winroth
175
[ SUMMARY ]
Charters are among the richest sources for the history of medieval Europe. The
historical sub-discipline of diplomatics is devoted to the study of these documents. In Charters, Cartularies, and Archives, a distinguished international group of
diplomatists address thirteen cases of transmission and preservation of medieval
documents.
A recurrent theme in the volume is the actual preservation of individual original
charters, but the content of originals was transmitted in other ways as well.
Several chapters discuss questions relating to recopied originals, cartularies, and a
range of other archival practices for retaining documents during the Middle Ages.
Many of the authors focus on how documents were organized in archives and in
cartularies during the period. Others discuss the notions of “original document”
and “copy” – both their relationship to each other, and to the legal validity of the
document in question.
The essays collected here derive from papers delivered at a colloquium of the
Commission international de diplomatique in Princeton and in New York in the fall of
1999. The volume ranges over a wide chronological and geographical scope, with
contributions spread across Europe and the Middle Ages from the eighth-century
Lombard kingdom to late medieval Douai. Several chapters focus on institutions
in medieval France, but areas such as Scandinavia, Bohemia, and Italy are also
represented.