• Monastic Archives and the Law: Legal Strategies at Farfa and Monte Amiata at the Turn of the Millennium

    Author(s):
    Maya Maskarinec (see profile)
    Date:
    2021
    Item Type:
    Essay
    Permanent URL:
    http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/qze6-1j88
    Abstract:
    This article investigates two controversies that reveal the deeply intertwined nature of legal strategies and archival practices at the monasteries of Farfa and Monte Amiata around the turn of the millennium. It argues that the protagonists of these cases, abbots knowledgeable in law and the history of their monasteries, pursued markedly historical legal strategies: legal strategies that looked to, manipulated, and, above all, contextualized, archival documents in order to make legal arguments. This sheds light on early medieval monastic legal culture in north-central Italy and provides insights into the rationale for monastic forgeries of documentary materials at Monte Amiata.
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    Pub. Date:
    2021
    Journal:
    Early Medieval Europe
    Volume:
    29
    Issue:
    3
    Status:
    Published
    Last Updated:
    3 years ago
    License:
    All Rights Reserved

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