Description / Table of Contents:
Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- A Material Approach to Written Artefacts of Rulership and Administration: An Introduction -- The Charter Scribes of King Henry III. A Palaeographical Investigation of English Royal Charter Engrossments and Enrolments, 1259-1265 -- The Scribe and the Witnesses: The Drafting of Witness Lists in the Charters of the Counts of Flanders (1071-1191) -- To Write or to Seal? New Evidence on Literacy Practices in Early Imperial China -- Handwriting in the Official Documents from Liye and Bureaucratic Politics in the Qin Empire -- Between Slip and Tablet. Rulership and Writing Support in Eastern Han China, 25-220 CE -- Record-Keeping on the Estates of the Earls of Northumberland. Drafts, Templates and Innovation? -- Layouting Authority. Graphic Reflections of Power Relationships in Early Chinese Administrative Documents -- Enrolling Lines of Power: Yorkist Pedigree Rolls as Material Evidence of Kingship -- The Cartulary as a Visual Representation of Rulership. King Henry IV of England (1399-1413) and the Great Cowcher (London, TNA, DL 42/1−2) -- The Power of Bookkeeping in Late Medieval Friedberg and Gelnhausen -- Notes on Contributors -- Indices.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
Pages:
1 online resource (312 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9783111323664
Series Statement:
Materiale Textkulturen Series v.43
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=31361041
Language:
English
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