Public notary in medieval Catalonia: some considerations

[eng] 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 e...

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Bibliographic Details
Author: Piñol Alabart, Daniel
Format: article
Status:Published version
Publication Date:2021
Country:España
Institution:Universidad de Barcelona
Repository:Dipòsit Digital de la UB
OAI Identifier:oai:diposit.ub.edu:2445/213324
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/2445/213324
Access Level:Open access
Keyword:Catalunya
Edat mitjana
Arxius notarials
Protocols notarials
Catalonia
Middle Ages
Notarial archives
Notarial protocols
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Summary:[eng] 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 origin is of the notarial institution in depth and to see how it has been treated by the various authors who have studied the topic.