Dating Undated Medieval Charters
Published on 3. August 2000
Book
Hardback
256 pages
978-0-85115-792-4 (ISBN)
Description
Many of the millions of medieval charters surviving in European archives and repositories were written without any reference to a date of issue. The proliferation of undated charters in England and Normandy indicates that the custom was especially peculiar to lands under Norman rule, but charters issued by major religious houses are often also undated.The DEEDS Project at the University of Toronto has developed a computerised methodology for dating charters, relying on analysis of vocabulary, syntax and formulae. In this volume an international group of scholars concerned with the problem of charter chronology consider the potential of the computerised methodology compared to other more traditional methods of dating, such as identification of names, changing in wording and address, and handwriting. Discussion also touches on regional differences in the production, use and distribution of charters, and on ways both manual and mechanical to date and analyse the content of large numbers of them.MICHAEL GERVERS is Director of the DEEDS Project at the University of Toronto, Canada.Contributors: MICHAEL GERVERS, RODOLFO FIALLOS, MARJORIE CHIBNALL, VERONIQUE GAZEAU, BENOIT-MICHEL TOCK, NICHOLAS VINCENT, GEORGES DECLERCQ, ZSOLT HUNYADIR, ATTILA ZSOLDOS, MARIA HILLEBRANDT, TREVOR CHALMERS, LAZSLO VESZPREMI, P.D.A. HARVEY, ANDRAS GRYNAEUS, JOZSEF PALFY
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A valuable additional tool in this exercise...which complements more traditional approaches. * ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Woodbridge
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-85115-792-4 (9780851157924)
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Content
The DEEDS project and the development of a computerised methodology for dating undated English private charters of the 12th and 13th centuries, Michael Gervers; an overview of the process of dating undated medieval charters - latest results and future development, Rodolfo Fiallos; dating the charters of the smaller religious houses in Suffolk in the 12th and 13th centuries, Marjorie Chibnall; recherches autour de la datation des cites normands aux Xe-XIIe siecles, Veronique Gazeau; l'etude du vocabulaire et al datation des actes - l'apport des bases de donnees informatisees, Benoit-Michel Tock; the charters of King Henry II - the introduction of the Royal Inspeximus revisited, Nicholas Vincent; a new method for dating and identification of forgeries? the DEEDS methodology applied to a forged charter of Count Robert I of Flanders for St Peter's Abbey, Ghent, Georges Declercq; the identification of a forgery - regularities and irregularities in the formulae of the charters issued by the Szekesfehervar Convent of the Knights of St John of Jerusalem, 1243-1353, Zsolt Hunyadir; the problems of dating the Queens' charters of the Arpadian, 11th -13th century, Attila Zsoldos; social groups as recognition patterns - a means of dating medieval charters, Maria Hillebrandt; beyond DEEDS - a role for personal names? Trevor Chalmers; on the border of book and charter palaeography - the dating of some Hungarian manuscripts from the 11th to the 13th century, Lazslo Veszpremi; seals and the dating of documents, P.D.A. Harvey; dendro-chronology and history, Andras Grynaeus; dating problems and methods in the middle ages of earth history, Jozsef Palfy.