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SUMMARY:Rostovtzeff Lecture Series: As If: Fiction\, Make-Believe\, and the Legal World of Early Medieval Francia\, 5th-9th Centuries AD
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DESCRIPTION:This lecture will take place online. Registration is requi
 red\, click through for the registration link. Zoom information will b
 e provided via confirmation email to registered participants. One of t
 he areas on which surviving legal evidence provides some of the most c
 ontradictory views is the legal and administrative framework itself. I
  will take the written word and feuding as examples. Surviving texts c
 an give very different impressions of the importance of written docume
 nts\, and it is possible to read early medieval evidence either to sup
 port a literate\, almost bureaucratic vision of legal rights\, or to v
 iew literate forms as a distorting sideshow. I suggest this shows that
  the importance of the written word depended not on stable assumptions
  about the value of writing\, but instead on a collective agreement ab
 out how important it was going to be in any particular case.
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CONTACT:isaw@nyu.edu
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