La pratique des rouleaux mortuaires : une écriture collective de la mémoire (VIIIe siècle – première moitié du XIIIe siècle)
(2026)
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- (en) Mortuary rolls are itinerant and interconnected commemorative monuments that reveal a facet of the cultural and social history of religious communities in the Latin West. Their monumental nature is twofold: they commemorate a deceased person, for whom they solicit liturgical prayer, and they involve a very large number of religious institutions to contribute to their progressive writing as new parchments are sewn as they circulate. Through their mobility, they bear witness to human, institutional, intellectual, and cultural networks that unite the monastic and canonical world around the memory of a privileged deceased individual and a singular artefact. The primary aim of this work is to shed a new light on the practice of mortuary rolls over the long term, through the lens of literacy and medieval written culture. Central to this study are the questions of collective memory and writing; they make it possible to examine the documentary typology but, above all, to understand the social uses of this centuries old, changing, and proteiform practice. On the one hand, it is necessary to consider the process of preparing a mortuary roll by exploring its liturgical and commemorative roots; on the other, to follow the object throughout its circulation, scrutinising the materiality of the inscriptions as well as the conventional or poetic discourses.
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Venturelli, E. (2026). La pratique des rouleaux mortuaires : une écriture collective de la mémoire (VIIIe siècle – première moitié du XIIIe siècle). https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/276166