De Angelis, Gianmarco and Pani, Laura (2025) Writing for aristocrats, writing as aristocrats: notarial strategies and graphic self-representation in the documentation of the elites of the regnum. In: Aristocratic networks. Elites and social dynamics in Italy in the age of Lothar I. Reti Medievali E-Book (53). Firenze University Press, Firenze, pp. 69-94. ISBN 979-12-215-0771-3
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[EN] 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.
| Tipologia del documento: | Capitolo di libro |
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| Informazioni aggiuntive: | The essay, part of the outcomes of the PRIN 2017 "Ruling in hard times. Patterns of power and practices of government in the making of Carolingian Italy", PI Giuseppe Albertoni (research unit of the University of Padua, coord. Gianmarco De Angelis), is the result of a common elaboration between the two authors. In particular, Gianmarco De Angelis is responsible for paragraphs 1-2, Laura Pani for paragraphs 3-4. |
| Parole chiave: | Middle Ages; ninth century; Italy; kingdom of Italy; Carolingians; counts; bishops; charters and archives; caroline minuscule; documentary culture |
| Soggetto: | D History General and Old World > D History (General) > D111 Medieval History |
| Depositato da: | dr Vincenzo De Luise |
| Depositato il: | 07 Set 2026 07:56 |
| Ultima modifica: | 07 Set 2026 07:56 |
| URI: | https://www.rmoa.unina.it/id/eprint/10464 |
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