{"id":3805,"date":"2015-03-28T04:05:40","date_gmt":"2015-03-28T04:05:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/?page_id=3805"},"modified":"2015-05-11T19:16:01","modified_gmt":"2015-05-11T19:16:01","slug":"rossignol-2013-congress","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/abstracts\/rossignol-2013-congress\/","title":{"rendered":"Rossignol (2013 Congress)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>S\u00e9bastien Rossignol<\/strong><br \/>\n(<em>Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia<\/em>)<br \/>\n<strong>\u201cDucal Charters and the Transformations of the Written Word in Silesia, 1200-1327\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Abstract of Paper at the 48th International Congress on Medieval Studies (Kalamazoo, 2013)<\/p>\n<p>Session on <strong>\u201cMedieval Writing Materials: \u00a0Texts, Transmission, and the Manifestation of Authority\u201d<\/strong><br \/>\nSponsored by the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence<br \/>\nOrganized by Mildred Budny (RGME)<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/2013-international-congress-on-medieval-studies\/\"><strong>2013 Congress<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>[<em>First published on our first website on 17 May 2013<\/em>]<\/p>\n<p>The thirteenth century was a period of unprecedented diffusion of charter writing in East Central Europe. \u00a0Charters were used to document matters of legal significance, transactions of properties, donations, and exchanges. \u00a0Written documents were also, moreover, utilized by the rulers to demonstrate their position and authority; chanceries were built by the dukes to obtain control of charter production and the developing tradition. \u00a0Charter writing, at the same time, indicates a growing social concern for the written word, the spreading of the usage of written documents beyond the circles of the clerics and learned, and the groundbreaking cultural shift which Michael Clanchy described as \u201ctrust in writing.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>S\u00e9bastien Rossignol (Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia) \u201cDucal Charters and the Transformations of the Written Word in Silesia, 1200-1327\u201d Abstract of Paper at the 48th International Congress on Medieval Studies (Kalamazoo, 2013) Session on \u201cMedieval Writing Materials: \u00a0Texts, Transmission, and the Manifestation of Authority\u201d Sponsored by the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence Organized by Mildred [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":1023,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3805"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3805"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3809,"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3805\/revisions\/3809"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}