1st Edition
The Secret Life of Writing People, Script, and Ideas in the Iberian Peninsula (900–1200)
By Ainoa Castro Correa
Copyright 2027
200 Pages
2 Color & 3 B/W Illustrations
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Routledge
This book examines writing as a socially embedded practice in the Iberian Peninsula c. 900-1200, grounded in the charter record of the north-west, Galicia and northern Portugal, where documentary density coexists with highly uneven survival and archival mediation.
Offering a coordinated method that brings medieval palaeography, diplomatic analysis and social-historical interpretation into a... Read more
Content
0 Preface
1 Abbreviations
2 Introduction
3 Beyond Academic research
4.0 Method Overview
4.1 Method Historical analysis
4.2 Method Diplomatic analysis
4.3 Method Paleographical analysis
5.0 Case studies overview
5.1 Script and Writing in Portugal
5.2 People and Writing
5.3 A Scriptorium in Moreira
5.4 Deperdita
6 Conclusion
7 Bibliography
Biography
Ainoa Castro Correa is Associate Professor in Medieval History at the University of Salamanca, Spain, teaching medieval palaeography, diplomatic history, and the social history of writing. Her research addresses early medieval scripts, documentary culture and pragmatic literacy in early medieval Iberia.
