出版社：Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas
摘要：The aim of this article is to study the signs and symbols that appear in the hispanic medieval documents and manuscripts. These signs and symbols have usually been considered simply as mere elements to validate the charters. However, these alements were useful as a mean of visual communication between the high classes, able to generate charters, and the rest of medieval society—the majority illiterate— who received those charters. Because of their inability of understand an alphabetical code, they needed the graphic help to comprehend the message. Besides this, the article deals with non diplomatic signs and their function.
关键词：Written culture;Early Medieval diplomatics;Signs and symbols;Cultura escrita;Diplomática altomedieval;Signos y símbolos
