Die Verschriftlichung synodaler Entscheidungen
- Submitting institution
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University of Cambridge
- Unit of assessment
- 31 - Theology and Religious Studies
- Output identifier
- 2758
- Type
- C - Chapter in book
- DOI
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10.1515/9783110684377-004
- Book title
- Konzilien und kanonisches Recht in Spätantike und frühem Mittelalter
- Publisher
- De Gruyter
- ISBN
- 978-3-11-068430-8
- Open access status
- -
- Month of publication
- April
- Year of publication
- 2020
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- No
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- Yes
- English abstract
- The article analyses the ways in which decisions taken in church councils come to be formalised in written form, and their relationship to oral discussion and expressions of considered opinion (‘verdict’) on these occasions. Different forms and practices emerge that disprove the (routinely asserted) unbending connection between distinct stenographic requirements and (quasi-)legal procedure, revealing instead a range of administrative options and the porousness between textual genres used. The movement from orality to writing is further contrasted with evidence for the preference of draft-documents written in advance, allowing to evaluate the role of editorial intervention towards an agreed final form.