期刊名称：Sehepunkte : Rezensionsjournal für Geschichtswissenschaften
电子版ISSN：1618-6168
出版年度：2021
卷号：21
期号：11
语种：German
出版社：Herder-Institut, Institut für Zeitgeschichte
摘要：Keeper of Manuscripts and University Archives Emeritus at Corpus Christi College, University of Cambridge (UK) Patrick Zutshi proposes in this volume a collection of previously published essays examining the documentation produced by the chancery of the Avignon papacy. The volume spans the fourteenth century with forays into the preceding and succeeding periods. Since the selection comprises some thirty years of research, the author has corrected, revised, and updated 18 articles to current historiographical standards. The two remaining articles, "At the Point of Death: Licences to Choose a Confessor in mortis articulo Issued by the Avignon Popes," and "Autograph Letters of the Avignon Popes," are published here for the first time. Patrick Zutshi is interested foremost in diplomatic, the study that aims at reconstructing the procedures behind the drafting of medieval documents, and by consequence aims at recovering the historical nature of documents. His essays are abundantly footnoted, even though the volume lacks an encompassing bibliography - a short, "select bibliography" ends the introduction. Many essays are followed by appendices that offer the author's edition of numerous specific documents - rending thus a great service to scholars and researchers. The volume closes with an index of manuscripts, and a separate index of persons, places, and subjects.
