A escribir a la villa. Clerecía urbana, escribanos de concejo y notarios públicos en la Asturias del siglo XIII

Abstract

The concentration of diplomatic writing in towns is one of the main topics of the 13th century in Castille and it grows besides the urbanization of the kingdom. Even though the relationship between council’s scribes and notaries public in medieval Castille remains quite unknown. The aim of this paper is to draw the emergence of council’s scribes in the territory of Asturias, and subsequently to explain their early replacement by notaries public. This process is considered as a reflect of the king’s will to control the production of private charters.

Keywords

• Escribanos de concejo
• notariado público
• sellos diplomáticos
• Asturias.
• Council’s scribes
• notaries public
• diplomatic seals