Publication: De los códices diplomáticos denominados becerros. Estudio y propuesta de corpus digital
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2017-05-05
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Si la atención que los códices diplomáticos han recibido hasta el momento se fundamenta en su prevalencia como conjuntos de fuentes históricas de primer orden, acudimos a ellos ahora con una mirada heterogénea: aquella perspectiva que los sitúa en el núcleo del estudio como documentos capaces de articular los ejes centrales de una investigación en torno a sí mismos, como unidades documentales demandantes de un análisis global capaz de esclarecer los fundamentos relativos a su arquitectura documental, su motivación originaria, las adaptaciones más notables que registran promotores y copistas para conformar un sistema teleológico, en ocasiones complejo, orientado a satisfacer unas demandas generalmente archivísticas, administrativas, jurídicas, pero también de carácter cronístico o incluso ostentativo, derivadas de las más variadas situaciones, siempre críticas, por las que atraviesa la institución en el momento de su confección. Acercarnos a la compleja realidad de la producción de códices diplomáticos en la península pasa necesariamente por el estudio de las evidencias escriturarias transmitidas por los copistas y escribanos en los propios códices, en sus regestos o diplomas, prólogos, anotaciones marginales o iluminaciones; supone descubrir la génesis de una actividad productora reflexiva y sometida a las necesidades del monasterio, catedral o institución que propone su copia mediante una aproximación empírica a las características de, en este caso, un tipo determinado de códice diplomático, el denominado becerro, considerando en todo momento que la fiabilidad de los resultados a obtener de ella solo podría acreditarse mediante una investigación fundamentada sobre una muestra suficientemente representativa de los mismos...
While the attention focused on diplomatic codices to date has been based on their prevalence as first rate historical sources, in this thesis I take a heterogeneous approach, from a perspective that places them at the heart of the study as documents able to articulate the key themes of a research into these codices, as documentary items requiring an all-embracing analysis. This analysis should be capable of throwing light on the fundamentals about their documentary architecture, their original purpose, the most significant adaptations made by their promoters and copyists to conform to a sometimes complex teleological system, aimed at meeting demands of a generally archival, administrative or juridical nature, but also for chronicle or even ostentation purposes, arising from a wide range of always critical situations that the originating institution was undergoing at the time they were produced. In order to grasp the complex reality of the production of diplomatic codices on the Spanish mainland, we need to study the scribal evidence passed down by the copyists and scribes in the codices themselves, in their records or charters, prologues, marginal glosses or illuminations. In this way, we can discover the motivation behind what is a reflective act of production, subject to the needs of a monastery, cathedral or institution, by using an empirical approach to the characteristics of a certain type of diplomatic codex, the type known as becerros. We must bear in mind at all times that the reliability of the results to be obtained from this approach can only be supported by research based on a sufficiently representative sample of these codices..
While the attention focused on diplomatic codices to date has been based on their prevalence as first rate historical sources, in this thesis I take a heterogeneous approach, from a perspective that places them at the heart of the study as documents able to articulate the key themes of a research into these codices, as documentary items requiring an all-embracing analysis. This analysis should be capable of throwing light on the fundamentals about their documentary architecture, their original purpose, the most significant adaptations made by their promoters and copyists to conform to a sometimes complex teleological system, aimed at meeting demands of a generally archival, administrative or juridical nature, but also for chronicle or even ostentation purposes, arising from a wide range of always critical situations that the originating institution was undergoing at the time they were produced. In order to grasp the complex reality of the production of diplomatic codices on the Spanish mainland, we need to study the scribal evidence passed down by the copyists and scribes in the codices themselves, in their records or charters, prologues, marginal glosses or illuminations. In this way, we can discover the motivation behind what is a reflective act of production, subject to the needs of a monastery, cathedral or institution, by using an empirical approach to the characteristics of a certain type of diplomatic codex, the type known as becerros. We must bear in mind at all times that the reliability of the results to be obtained from this approach can only be supported by research based on a sufficiently representative sample of these codices..
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Tesis inédita de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Facultad de Geografía e Historia, Departamento de Ciencias y Técnicas Historiográficas y de Arqueología, leída el 04/12/2015