On the Gesta municipalia and the Public Validation of Documents in Frankish Europe
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10789592 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Warren Brown (0000-0003-1151-3373, California Institute of Technology, corresponding author), Warren C Brown |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 87 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 345-375 |
| Publication date | 2012-04-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Speculum (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0038-7134 • E-ISSN: 2040-8072 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0038713412001066 |
| OpenAlex | W2118292078 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 12 |
The disappearance of the late-Roman gesta municipalia, or municipal document registers, is one of the milestones along the road in Europe that leads from late antiquity to the early Middle Ages. While they survived, these registers apparently served two constituencies. The late-Roman state used the gesta municipalia to keep track of tax obligations as property changed hands. Citizens for their part validated and secured legal transactions by having the documents generated by their transactions ratified by the civic authorities and copied into the gesta
Ancient history · Middle Ages · Political science · State (computer science · Classical Studies and Legal History · Computer Science · History · Medieval and Early Modern Justice · Medieval Literature and History · Public Administration
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| Highly cited | No |
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