A View from Inside
Closing remarks on a collection of essays on literacy, highlighting three important areas for further research: liturgical writings, the evolution of “personal genres” such as letters, travel reports and autobiographies, and the social differentiation of literate mentalities.
Speaking About Miracles : Oral Testimony and Written Record in Medieval Canonization Trials
Focuses on the canonisation proceedings for Elisabeth von Thüringen and Margaret of Hungary.
Consensus and assemblies in early medieval central and eastern Europe
Discusses references to assemblies and consensus in the laws of St. Stephen and St. Ladislas (Hungary), in the description of a legal enactment of Duke Břetislav from Bohemia (as reported by Cosmas of Prague), and in the Gesta principum Polonorum as well as discussing general meetings of inhabitants of early Russian towns (veche).