Judiciary Practices and Monastic Rhetoric in the Light of the Loire Notices (Late Eleventh Century)
Sensésy, Chantal
Judiciary Practices and Monastic Rhetoric in the Light of the Loire Notices (Late Eleventh Century) - 2004.
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Legal monastic accounts in the Val de Loire at the end of the eleventh century were carefully elaborated texts. Their scribes excelled in manipulating information. They made rhetorical choices and defined real discursive strategies to produce their ideal version of settlements of conflicts. Towards 1070, for some of these scholars, the purpose of a plea was to establish the truth and assert the law at the end of a strict procedure. For others, twenty years later, it was to make peace and allow forgiveness during a ritual of reconciliation. That is the reason why judicial narratives were deliberately rewritten toward 1090, according to the new political, religious, and intellectual context that was characterized by the affirmation of innovative ideas and an ideology of peace. These strongly ideological texts suggest a reconstituted history of the judicial practices and, therefore, of religious communities as well.
Judiciary Practices and Monastic Rhetoric in the Light of the Loire Notices (Late Eleventh Century) - 2004.
82
Legal monastic accounts in the Val de Loire at the end of the eleventh century were carefully elaborated texts. Their scribes excelled in manipulating information. They made rhetorical choices and defined real discursive strategies to produce their ideal version of settlements of conflicts. Towards 1070, for some of these scholars, the purpose of a plea was to establish the truth and assert the law at the end of a strict procedure. For others, twenty years later, it was to make peace and allow forgiveness during a ritual of reconciliation. That is the reason why judicial narratives were deliberately rewritten toward 1090, according to the new political, religious, and intellectual context that was characterized by the affirmation of innovative ideas and an ideology of peace. These strongly ideological texts suggest a reconstituted history of the judicial practices and, therefore, of religious communities as well.
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