Was there, in the Italic kingdom during the early and high Carolingian age, a type of documentation that is identifiable as aristocratic not only by genesis? That is, did there exist, in the charters produced at the request of counts and bishops (these are the “aristocrats” at the center of attention, the upper echelons of an official and ecclesiastical aristocracy defined on the basis of the Königsnähe), peculiar and consciously distinctive graphic-formal solutions and practices of self-representation? Moving into a well-established strand of scholarship, the essay offers some considerations on the forms and functions of written culture as a reflection (and definition, interpretation) of political dynamics and forms of power, particularly investigating moments and degrees of penetration of the new Carolingian minuscule into the highest levels of the ecclesiastical hierarchy as an adherence to the Carolingian political program.
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Chapter Title
Writing for aristocrats, writing as aristocrats: notarial strategies and graphic self-representation in the documentation of the elites of the regnum
Authors
Gianmarco De Angelis, Laura Pani
Language
English
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0771-3.06
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Publication Year
2025
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Book Title
Aristocratic networks. Elites and social dynamics in Italy in the age of Lothar I
Editors
Giuseppe Albertoni, Manuel Fauliri, Leonardo Sernagiotto
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Number of Pages
350
Publication Year
2025
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Publisher Name
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0771-3
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979-12-215-0770-6
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979-12-215-0771-3
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979-12-215-0773-7
Series Title
Reti Medievali E-Book
Series ISSN
2704-6362
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2704-6079