The European Middle Ages are generally considered to be the age of the charter, but there are also charters of various types handed down from other pre-modern cultures. These documents are now no longer seen as mere textual recordings, but as objects of symbolic communication. The aim of this volume is to show the possibilities offered by the analysis of charters for answering general questions in cultural and social history.

Autorentext

Andrea Stieldorf, University of Bonn, Germany.

Zusammenfassung

The series offers an interdisciplinary forum for peer-reviewed, thematically focussed anthologies and selected conference proceedings, as well as monographs on topics from the field of medieval studies. As such it complements the journal Das Mittelalter. Perspektiven mediävistischer Forschung, published by the Mediävistenverband (Medievalists' Society) and aims at covering all academic disciplines represented by the society. The scope thus ranges from the study of history and theology, Byzantine and Latin studies, to modern language philologies. Each volume aims at overcoming the boundaries of disciplines and of nationally-conceived academic traditions.