Reconstructing formularies: the charters of the episcopal chancery of Porto in the Middle Ages

• Type: Article in International Conference Proceedings Book
• Date: 2018

Authors

Silva, Maria João Oliveira e (Author) FLUP

Conference proceedings International

Title: Les formulaires : compilation et circulation des modèles d'actes dans l'Europe médiévale et moderne / XIIIe congrès de la Commission internationale de diplomatique

Pages: 283-294

XIIIe congrès de la Commission internationale de diplomatique

Paris, 3-4 septembre 2012

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Abstract (EN): This study aims to reconstruct the formularies of a specific type of documents, namely the charters of confirmation of rectory produced in the episcopal chancery of Porto in the Middle Ages. In order to achieve this goal we study the non-essential formulas found in the protocol, text and eschatocol of each one of the 80 collected charters, as well as the forms of validation used in these documents. The joint study of the dictamen and the validatio thus allow the reconstruction of the modus faciendi of the chancery, and its evolution, with regard to the production of these types of confirmation. We concluded that there were, in fact, “formulary rules” that only exceptionally have been broken. And for being exceptions, these documents deserve special attention and their study proved that the changes appeared only in specific situations. To evaluate the originality of the formulary of the confirmations of rectory made in this Episcopal chancery we preceded a comparative study of the same type of charters produced in other Episcopal chanceries, i.e. those of Coimbra, Lamego and Zaragoza.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific