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Cartularies 

collections of copies of the documents legally registering gifts, primarily of land, for the use of the church in medieval Western Europe. Copies of royal grants and sometimes copies of agreements between secular persons were also included in the cartularies. The copies did not always agree with the originals. The earliest examples of cartularies date to the late seventh and the eighth centuries; they ceased to be compiled in the late 13th and the 14th centuries. The cartularies of the large monasteries often contain thousands of documents. Cartularies are one of the most important sources for the investigation of the social and economic processes of the feudal countryside. Such data as the size and structure of the landholdings of the various social strata, the duties of the peasants, and the means by which the feudal dependence of the peasants was formed can be determined from the cartularies.

In the broadest sense, cartularies were understood in the Middle Ages to be collections of any sort of documents.



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These include narrative sources accounts, seals, charters, papal letters and correspondences that appear in French baronial cartularies.
He uses evidence from documents of practice such as wills, obituary books, hearth censuses, cartularies, and guild records to show when formal beguinages were founded, whether they were of the convent or court type, how many beguines inhabited these communities, how beguines were employed in the community and urban workforce, and, perhaps most revealingly, the socioeconomic status of both founders and members of beguine institutions.
Book Three of the Histo ria says: 'Here ends the history of the life and heroic feats of King Afonso Henriques drawn from the cartularies of the kingdom by the licenciado Fernando Oliveyra, chaplain to the kings of Portugal who reigned in his time, Dom Joao the Third, Dom Sebastian the First, Dom Anrique the First and Dom'.
 
 
 
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