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Rognoni Cristina
Legal Language and Practice in Twelfth- and Thirteenth-Century Messina: The Evidence from Greek Private Documents
This paper concerns twelfth- and thirteenth-century deeds drawn up in Greek in an area where the hellenophone presence was deeply rooted. The Church and Greek monastic institutions continued to exert widespread influence, and the Byzantine cultural tradition was even more persistent. Document analysis supports two interpretive paths from which multilingual phenomena can be singled out and studied. (1) Social interactions. Through these legal transactions social interaction are represented through writing in one of the three official languages of the kingdom, Greek, Latin or Arabic. (2) The language of the documents. Written deeds translate legal procedure into a special language. Laws, form…
Il contributo dei documenti d’archivio per lo studio di Messina in epoca normanna. Nuovi dati e riletture a partire dai documenti greci inediti.
Unpublished, or revisited, documentary sources in Greek language from the XIIth century, provide topographical, economic, and social data that, connected to material and literary sources, are able to draft a new map of the city of Messina in the Norman period.