Text and Textuality in Early Medieval Iberia: The Written and The World, 711-1031 Graham Barrett

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• ISBN-10: 0192648667
• ISBN-13: 9780192648662
• Author: Graham Barrett

Text and Textuality in Early Medieval Iberia is a study of the functions and conceptions of writing and reading, documentation and archives, and the role of literate authorities in the Christian kingdoms of the northern Iberian Peninsula between the Muslim conquest of 711 and the fall of the Islamic caliphate at Córdoba in 1031. Based on the first complete survey of the over 4,000 surviving Latin charters from the period, it is an essay in the archaeology and biography of text: part one concerns materiality, tracing the lifecycle of charters from initiation and composition to preservation and reuse, while part two addresses connectivity, delineating a network of texts through painstaking identification of more than 2,000 citations of other charters, secular and canon law, the Bible, liturgy, and monastic rules. Few may have been able to read or write, yet the extent of textuality was broad and deep, in the authority conferred upon text and the arrangements made to use it.

Table contents:

Part I. The Lifecycle

1. Archival Voices

2. Creating

3. Retaining

Part II. The Network

4. Proving

5. Framing

6. Sacred Words

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