Pragmatic literacy in medieval Serbia /
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| Author / Creator: | Bubalo, Đorđe |
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| Imprint: | Turnhout, Belgium : Brepols, [2014]. |
| Description: | xxvi, 428 pages : color maps ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Utrecht studies in medieval literacy ; 29 Utrecht studies in medieval literacy ; 29. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10043273 |
Table of Contents:
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- List of Illustrations
- Maps
- Chapter 1. Introduction: Medieval Serbia (Land, Ruler, People)
- Part 1. Written Records in Medieval Serbia
- Chapter 2. Several Observations on Sources
- Laws
- Documents
- Literary Sources
- Other Sources
- Chapter 3. Characteristics of This Research
- Chapter 4. Basic Characteristics of the Documentary Legacy of the Serbian Middle Ages
- Materials
- Writing and Language
- The Names of Documents
- The Fate and Preservation of Medieval Documents
- Chapter 5. Social and Material Prerequisites of Written Communication
- The Development of Literacy
- The Pre-Nemanjic Period: Examples of Documentary Literacy
- Serbia in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries: Causes of the Surge in Documentary Literacy
- Peculiarities of the Bosnian State
- Part 2. Agents of Literacy
- Chapter 6. The Ruler
- The Rulers' Ideology and the Written Document
- The Reputation of Rulers' Documents (Public Faith and Permanence)
- The Ruler and State Administration
- Chapter 7. The Church
- Written Basis of the Privileged Status of the Church
- Documents of Bishops, Written Administration under the Auspices of the Church
- Monasteries
- Chapter 8. The Nobility
- "Written Patrimony"
- The Use of Documents as a Reflection of Social Status
- Chapter 9. The Towns
- Town Privileges
- Administration
- The Mining Business
- Trade (Coastal Merchants in the Hinterland)
- Chapter 10. Public Notaries and Private Legal Relations
- Written Documents in Private Legal Relations: The Word of Law
- Nomiks and Nomik Documents
- Private Documents and Notes
- Part 3. Domains of the Use of the Written Word
- Chapter 11. Diplomacy
- Diplomatic Correspondence
- Diplomatic Missions
- Concluding Treaties and Issuing Charters
- Chapter 12. Correspondence
- Hagiographies, Epistolaries, Drafts of Beginnings of Letters, Short Messages (Several Notes on Sources)
- Private Correspondence of the Ruler's Family
- The Ruler and the Church: A Symphony in Correspondence
- Church, Nobles, Citizens, Private Persons
- Chapter 13. The Probative Force of Documents and Their Role in Judicial Proceedings
- Means of Evidence: The Basic Purpose
- The Role of the Written Word in Legal Procedures
- Probative Force and the Use of Serbian Documents in the Maritime Communes and in Venice
- Forgeries
- Chapter 14. In Place of a Conclusion: The Significance and Scope of the Written Word
- Symbols
- Factors of Dispersion
- Literary Works as a Pattern
- A Final Look
- Appendix I. Latin Transliteration of the Old Cyrillic Alphabet
- Appendix II. List of Rulers
- Rulers of Medieval Serbia
- Rulers of Medieval Zeta (Duklja)
- Rulers of Medieval Bosnia
- Select Bibliography
- Primary Sources
- Secondary Materials
- Index