Public notary in medieval Catalonia: some considerations

DOI: https://doi.org/10.7410/1487
Keywords: Catalonia, Middle Ages, Notarial Documents, Public Notary, Catalunya, Edat mitjana, Documentació notarial, Notariat public

Abstract

This article examines the history of the Catalan public notary in order to review some of the most important elements in the development of the notarial institution in Catalonia. This review will also allow us to detect the gaps in this history and to suggest some mechanisms to fill them. We establish a periodisation to facilitate the analysis of the evolution of the Catalan notary. This allows us to study the origins of the notarial institution in depth and to see how it has been treated by the various authors who have studied the topic.

En aquest article es fa un repàs a la història del notariat public català per tal de revisar alguns dels principals elements del desenvolupament de la institució notarial a Catalunya. Aquesta revisió ens permet detector algunes llacunes en aquesta història i suggerir alguns mecanismes per a omplir-les. Establim una periodització per facilitar l’anàlisi de l’evolució del notariat català. Això ens permet estudiar detingudament els orígens de la institució notarial i veure com ha estat tractada pels diferents autors que han treballat sobre el tema.

Author Biography

Daniel Piñol-Alabart, Universitat de Barcelona

Daniel Piñol-Alabart is an associate professor of Paleography and Diplomatics at the University of Barcelona. He teaches Medieval Diplomatics at the European Diploma in Medieval Studies in Rome (FIDEM). His speciality is the history of the Catalan notary in the Middle Ages, a topic on which he has published several publications and directed research projects. He has also dedicated studies to municipal and ecclesiastical documents of the Middle Ages, as well as studying Catalan patrimonial archives for several years.

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Published
2021-12-31
Issue
Vol. 9/I n.s. (December 2021)
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RiMe 9/I n.s. (December 2021). Special Issue
Copyright (c) 2021 Daniel Piñol

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