Capitularies in the Ottonian realm
Steffen Patzold
This essay is a study of the transmission and later use Carolingian capitularies. Issued in ninth century, number cases these documents are known to us only through copies made tenth Ottonian empire. The goal prompt rethinking contrast often drawn between text‐based legal culture empire supposedly oral ritual rule. A survey seventeen capitulary manuscripts offered, followed by two case studies. first concerns tenth‐century Metz manuscript; second centres around Mainz book. These appeal past order shape claims present: as assemblages texts, they bear important witness context their production.
Early Medieval Europe