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Giovanni Boccaccio

Jean Boccace

Biographie

Né à Certaldo ou Florence en juin ou juillet 1313 – Mort à Certaldo le 21 décembre 1375

Écrivain italien. On lui attribue également traduction italienne du De amore d'André le Chapelain.

Bibliographie

The nature of the documents that the Multons and similar gentry families sought to preserve, and even the means by which they sought to do so, provide remarkable insights. Coss titles one of his chapters "The Culture of the Cartulary,"... more

The nature of the documents that the Multons and similar gentry families sought to preserve, and even the means by which they sought to do so, provide remarkable insights. Coss titles one of his chapters "The Culture of the Cartulary," and this is most apt. The increasing need to produce documentary evidence of title to land coupled with the growing complexity of legal devices to protect estates against the challenges of both rival claims and the uncertainties of succession produced a deeply rooted law-mindedness in the gentry. Coss provides an illuminating example of a secular cartulary belonging not to the Multons but to their neighbors the Huntingfields of Frampton. The binding is, as Coss describes it, "strikingly makeshift" (187), consisting of two large sheets of parchment sewn together with a flap on the right-hand side by which to enclose and cover the "book." These parchment sheets are in fact outdated account rolls being repurposed to preserve documents of more than temporary utility. The cartulary contains a miscellany of charters and other legal and financial documents, but these are limited to the Lincolnshire properties at Frampton, Toft, and Boston, even though the Huntingfields had wider holdings throughout East Anglia and beyond. The scope of the Huntingfield Cartulary clearly reflects the intensely local nature of gentry society in this period. Related to this "culture of the cartulary" are questions of literacy and the use of language and the social world of the gentry. Coss points to the Multons' use of Latin, French, and English in various contexts; the suggestive appearance of pen trials in the Multon archives; and even provides a reconstruction of