Abstract
The study of the medieval urban chancery of ’s-Hertogenbosch is an exeptional case because the corpus of the sources are deficient. Usual sources as the municipal accounts and signatures of the townscribes are missing. Nevertheless the reconstruction of the townsecretariat was possible due to the diplomatic-palaeographical analysis of the charters, protocol books, sentence registers, a few accounts, cartularies and notarial instruments. Only trough the paleographic research of the documentary sources it was possible to reveal the growing literacy in town and the dominant position of the notariat within the town secretariat.
Original language | Dutch |
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Title of host publication | Schepenbanken in de Kempen |
Subtitle of host publication | Referaten van het XLIXste congres van het Centrum voor de Studie van Land en Volk van de Kempen te Baarle-Nassau-Hertog in 2014 |
Editors | Jan Franken |
Place of Publication | Geel-Roosendaal |
Publisher | Centrum voor de Studie van Land en Volk van de Kempen |
Pages | 79-97 |
Number of pages | 18 |
Volume | 31 |
Publication status | Published - 2015 |
Keywords
- diplomatics