Graham Barrett
Biographic Data
| ID | 5137280 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Graham Barrett |
| GIVEN NAMES | Graham |
| FAMILY NAME | Barrett |
| SIGNATURE | BARRETT G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Lincoln |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5732-2946 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 90 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Conclusion
This chapter argues that the written was the world of early medieval Iberia. Few may have been able to read and write, yet the extent of textuality was both broad and deep, in the authority conferred upon text and the arrangements made to use it. Via charter and scribe, society and social arrangements came increasingly to be influenced by norms originating from a network of texts. But this study also raises two critical questions. The greater den…
Appendices
Subject Modern History (1700 to 1945) Collection: Oxford Scholarship Online
Sacred Words
This chapter explores a further component of the network of texts in the corpus of charters, how the habits of the clergy revolved around Scripture, canon law, and monastic rules. Clerical scribes understood and expressed gift through the terms of their imagined community of Scripture, but as they had heard it, meditated on it, and prayed with it. They bounded Church patrimonies too by the compass of their textual community of canon law, or their…
Creating
This chapter is dedicated to the who, how, when, and where of the documentation. When we look for agents of literacy in early medieval Iberia, we find that primary literacy is nearly invisible amongst both the parties and witnesses to the transactions: in this society of secondary literacy, where making use of the written word by proxy was the norm, scribes become our quarry. If we pursue for whom they wrote, we can identify a broad network of sc…
Copyright Page
Retaining
This chapter ‘follows the parchment’. When a charter was drawn up, the beneficiary received both that record of transaction and prior written titles of that property; repeated over time, this process formed and combined archives. If we start at its first stage, the initial handover, we see signs that parties of all types, institutions and individuals, clergy and laity, maintained and curated archives. The dorsal notes on the reverse side of numer…
Proving
This chapter introduces the network of the corpus of charters, by delineating the interconnectedness between them. Charters were self-promoting: they situated themselves in a network of other charters, bearing witness to the ongoing relevance of each one beyond its creation, and acting to identify additional means of defence in court. As charters cited other charters to confirm themselves, to establish a background of textual transactions, to fla…
Framing
This chapter explores the second component of the network of texts in which charters positioned themselves: the written law of the Visigothic code, deployed and debated in the records of transactions and disputes. Some citations of legal precepts and provisions recur so often as to be formulaic: to confirm the legality of the act, or to assess or assign the penalty for interference, law is a crucial element of the legitimising rhetoric of the tex…
Archival Voices
This chapter introduces the lifecycle of the corpus of charters: how early medieval birth gave way to centuries of changing hands, passage from archive to archive, until the only homes which have preserved them became ecclesiastical and state institutions. In defining the corpus for study, the chapter casts the widest possible net, ranging over the entirety of northern Iberia (excluding Catalunya), to control for particularities which can distort…
Dedication
Text and Textuality in Early Medieval Iberia
This book is a study of the functions and conceptions of writing and reading, documentation and archives, and the role of literate authorities in the Christian kingdoms of the northern Iberian Peninsula between the Muslim conquest of 711 and the fall of the Islamic caliphate at Córdoba in 1031. Based on the first complete survey of the over 4,000 surviving Latin charters from the period, it is an essay in the archaeology and biography of text: pa…
The Social Context of the Charter
When and where was a charter written? Whether the scribe prepared it before, during, or after a transaction, on the spot or elsewhere, conditions its standing as historical evidence. They are basic questions for understanding how the written record relates to the communities whose actions it reveals. This article seeks answers in the corpus from the kingdoms of Asturias-León and Navarra down to 1031. Attention to the writing and content of the do…
Towards a trans‐regional approach to early medieval Iberia
The past few decades have witnessed great change in the study of the early Middle Ages in the Northern Iberian Peninsula. Spanish and Portuguese historiographies have moved away from older grand narratives such as ‘Reconquest and Repopulation’, which traced a centuries‐long process encompassing the ultimate victory of Christianity over Islam and the construction of distinct nations or national societies. The basic tenets of these and other essent…
Assembling the Austrasian Letters at T rier and L orsch
This article is a reconsideration of the Epistulae Austrasicae . We critique the widespread notion that the constituent letters were compiled by a courtier in the late sixth century at Metz as a book of models for use in the Austrasian chancellery. We argue instead that a monk from the monastery of Lorsch assembled the letters in the early ninth century from individual exemplars and groupings that he found in archives at T rier. We conclude by ou…
Text and Textuality in Early Medieval Iberia
This book is a study of the functions and conceptions of writing and reading, documentation and archives, and the role of literate authorities in the Christian kingdoms of the northern Iberian Peninsula between the Muslim conquest of 711 and the fall of the Islamic caliphate at Córdoba in 1031. Based on the first complete survey of the over 4,000 surviving Latin charters from the period, it is an essay in the archaeology and biography of text: pa…
Assembling the Austrasian Letters at T rier and L orsch
This article is a reconsideration of the Epistulae Austrasicae . We critique the widespread notion that the constituent letters were compiled by a courtier in the late sixth century at Metz as a book of models for use in the Austrasian chancellery. We argue instead that a monk from the monastery of Lorsch assembled the letters in the early ninth century from individual exemplars and groupings that he found in archives at T rier. We conclude by ou…
Assembling the Austrasian Letters at T rier and L orsch
This article is a reconsideration of the Epistulae Austrasicae . We critique the widespread notion that the constituent letters were compiled by a courtier in the late sixth century at Metz as a book of models for use in the Austrasian chancellery. We argue instead that a monk from the monastery of Lorsch assembled the letters in the early ninth century from individual exemplars and groupings that he found in archives at T rier. We conclude by ou…
Towards a trans‐regional approach to early medieval Iberia
The past few decades have witnessed great change in the study of the early Middle Ages in the Northern Iberian Peninsula. Spanish and Portuguese historiographies have moved away from older grand narratives such as ‘Reconquest and Repopulation’, which traced a centuries‐long process encompassing the ultimate victory of Christianity over Islam and the construction of distinct nations or national societies. The basic tenets of these and other essent…
Conclusion
This chapter argues that the written was the world of early medieval Iberia. Few may have been able to read and write, yet the extent of textuality was both broad and deep, in the authority conferred upon text and the arrangements made to use it. Via charter and scribe, society and social arrangements came increasingly to be influenced by norms originating from a network of texts. But this study also raises two critical questions. The greater den…
Appendices
Subject Modern History (1700 to 1945) Collection: Oxford Scholarship Online
Sacred Words
This chapter explores a further component of the network of texts in the corpus of charters, how the habits of the clergy revolved around Scripture, canon law, and monastic rules. Clerical scribes understood and expressed gift through the terms of their imagined community of Scripture, but as they had heard it, meditated on it, and prayed with it. They bounded Church patrimonies too by the compass of their textual community of canon law, or their…
Creating
This chapter is dedicated to the who, how, when, and where of the documentation. When we look for agents of literacy in early medieval Iberia, we find that primary literacy is nearly invisible amongst both the parties and witnesses to the transactions: in this society of secondary literacy, where making use of the written word by proxy was the norm, scribes become our quarry. If we pursue for whom they wrote, we can identify a broad network of sc…
Copyright Page
Retaining
This chapter ‘follows the parchment’. When a charter was drawn up, the beneficiary received both that record of transaction and prior written titles of that property; repeated over time, this process formed and combined archives. If we start at its first stage, the initial handover, we see signs that parties of all types, institutions and individuals, clergy and laity, maintained and curated archives. The dorsal notes on the reverse side of numer…
Proving
This chapter introduces the network of the corpus of charters, by delineating the interconnectedness between them. Charters were self-promoting: they situated themselves in a network of other charters, bearing witness to the ongoing relevance of each one beyond its creation, and acting to identify additional means of defence in court. As charters cited other charters to confirm themselves, to establish a background of textual transactions, to fla…
Framing
This chapter explores the second component of the network of texts in which charters positioned themselves: the written law of the Visigothic code, deployed and debated in the records of transactions and disputes. Some citations of legal precepts and provisions recur so often as to be formulaic: to confirm the legality of the act, or to assess or assign the penalty for interference, law is a crucial element of the legitimising rhetoric of the tex…
Archival Voices
This chapter introduces the lifecycle of the corpus of charters: how early medieval birth gave way to centuries of changing hands, passage from archive to archive, until the only homes which have preserved them became ecclesiastical and state institutions. In defining the corpus for study, the chapter casts the widest possible net, ranging over the entirety of northern Iberia (excluding Catalunya), to control for particularities which can distort…
Dedication
Text and Textuality in Early Medieval Iberia
This book is a study of the functions and conceptions of writing and reading, documentation and archives, and the role of literate authorities in the Christian kingdoms of the northern Iberian Peninsula between the Muslim conquest of 711 and the fall of the Islamic caliphate at Córdoba in 1031. Based on the first complete survey of the over 4,000 surviving Latin charters from the period, it is an essay in the archaeology and biography of text: pa…
The Social Context of the Charter
When and where was a charter written? Whether the scribe prepared it before, during, or after a transaction, on the spot or elsewhere, conditions its standing as historical evidence. They are basic questions for understanding how the written record relates to the communities whose actions it reveals. This article seeks answers in the corpus from the kingdoms of Asturias-León and Navarra down to 1031. Attention to the writing and content of the do…
History (13 works) · Law (9 works) · Medieval Iberian Studies (9 works) · Political science (9 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Art (6 works) · Charter (5 works) · Literature (5 works) · Medieval Literature and History (5 works) · Archaeological and Historical Studies (4 works)