La révolution de l'écrit au Moyen Âge, avec Paul Bertrand [1/2]

In this new installment of our [History Courses] we welcome historian Paul Bertrand, who discusses the place of writing in late medieval society. He is the author of the book Les écritures ordinaires, which presents the interactions between writing and medieval society during the long 13th century. As much an essay as a synthesis, this original book is based on richly illustrated and commented documentation. It aims to outline a key moment in the documentary revolution that transformed the Middle Ages, through codicological, diplomatic, and paleographic analyses. Increasingly invested with legal value, 13th-century documents became both authoritative instruments and ordinary writings, freed from formalisms and diplomatic structural frameworks, norms, and rules. This teeming mass of writings sheds new light on the multitude of men and women who seized upon them. In this first episode, Paul Bertrand describes the Writing Revolution. Next week, he will present the men of writing and the place of reading in medieval society. Paul Bertrand is Christophe Dickès' guest. The guest: Paul Bertrand was Deputy Director of the Institute for Research and History of Texts, CNRS. He is a Professor of Medieval History at the Catholic University of Louvain. He is interested in medieval graphic and textual cultures, as they reveal rhythms, dynamics, and social and cultural constants. Paul Bertrand conducts research in medieval history, from the 10th to the 15th century, exploring a wide range of themes. His current research focuses on the history of medieval graphic cultures (also known, more narrowly, as the history of scripturality or the history of writing practices), from a perspective of social, material, and comparative history. He initiated this line of research dedicated to the history of archival documents as historical actors and not just as sources, with his dissertation in 1998. A specialist in diplomacy, he recently studied Les écritures ordinaires (Publications de la Sorbonne, 440 pages, €32), which characterizes the 13th and 14th centuries in Europe. ****************************** Find Storiavoce at https://storiavoce.com/ Support Storiavoce at https://storiavoce.com/soutenez-stori... Follow us on Twitter:   / storiavoce   or on Facebook:   / storiavoce   or finally on Instagram:   / storiavoce