Adam J. Kosto
Auteur van Documentary Culture and the Laity in the Early Middle Ages
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That said, I did find the book at times a frustrating and confusing read. Kosto does not tend to write in a linear/chronological manner, but nor is he writing a thematic history; at times it was extremely difficult to keep a timeline of occurrences in mind. He is also inconsistent in how he defines the very topic of his study—it is at one and the same time a defined diplomatic genre, and the broader category of 'anything that uses the wording hec est conuenientia is one.' The last chapter, on writing and power, was by far the most interesting to me, and I wish it had been expanded on. I really wanted to see Kosto elaborate on the intriguing statement that the tenth century "shift in literacy was not one from memory to written record, but from memory to imagination, from the use of writing to reconstruct the past to the use of writing to construct the future." There is a lot left unanswered here, or unaddressed, but I think Making Agreements in Medieval Catalonia is still a remarkable base to start from, and something of a pattern for a regional study that also aspires to a broader significance.… (meer)