Tiempo y memoria en las fuentes documentales de la Edad Media

Abstract

Time and memory in medieval documentary sources». Documentary sources stand as one of the most genuine attempts of medieval man to prevent forgetfulness and leave a record of present facts as well as of future projections. This work examines the re-enactment of concepts such as time and memory in the documents contained in the CODEA+ 2015 corpus. The analysis has specially taken into account (1) the presence or absence of explicit dating (data chronica), (2) the semantic and referential range of the terms «time» and «memory», (3) the replacement of the pragmatic context represented by «acts of possession» by the formulaic evidence pertaining administrative and notarial documents, and (4) the consequences for Western culture of the yearning to leave a written trace of all those acts we carry out.