Scribal practices in the seigneuries of central France: some examples from Berry, Marche, and Bourbonnais (thirteenth–mid-sixteenth centuries)
Pratiques scripturaires dans les seigneuries du centre de la France : quelques exemples entre Berry, Marche et Bourbonnais (XIIIe-milieu XVIe siècle)
Résumé
Central France (Berry, Marche, and Bourbonnais) is a rural region dotted with market towns that developed during the late Middle Ages. In the context of the scribal revolution in the pre-modern West, several of these towns saw the emergence of seigniorial chanceries. This article attempts to characterise these small scribal workshops and their legal practices. First, the people who worked in these chanceries and their social trajectories are introduced, as the figure of the notary gradually took over the seigneurial chanceries. Next, the characteristics of the documents produced are examined, with the significant increase in documentation during the fifteenth century showing an expansion of these chanceries. Finally, the legal practices of these towns are compared with those of the surrounding cities to measure the former’s level of legal acculturation.
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