The memory of past acts : picturing presence, loss, and history in illuminated cartularies, c.1050-1220 /

Medieval cartularies were produced with varying aims: managing lands, defending rights, memorializing benefactors, and preserving and organizing old records. As much as these complex editorial and scribal projects tell textual histories of their institutions, the imagery that sometimes accompanies t...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Maxwell, Robert A. (Robert Allan), 1968- (Author)
Other Authors: Hamburger, Jeffrey F. (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, [2026]
Series:Text, image, context ; 10.
Studies and texts (Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies) ; 241.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Documentary residue
  • Sealing into history
  • Memorializing the charter
  • Thematizing the medium: charter to codex
  • Dream work, from archive to history.