Chapter Die ,Privaturkunde' im persisch-islamischen Kultur- und Rechtsbereich. Herausforderungen einer komparatistischen Diplomatik

• Main Author: Werner, Christoph U. (auth)
• Other Authors: Stieldorf, Andrea (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Published: Berlin/Boston De Gruyter 2019
• Series: Das Mittelalter. Perspektiven mediävistischer Forschung. Beihefte 12
• Subjects: Literary studies: classical, early & medieval; Medieval history; Imagery; Tibet; Byzantium
• Online Access: OAPEN Library: download the publication; OAPEN Library: description of the publication

The European Middle Ages are generally considered to be the "age of the charter," but there are also charters of various types handed down from other pre-modern cultures. These documents are now no longer seen as mere "textual recordings," but as objects of symbolic communication...