Title: Art of Documentation
Description: This dissertation considers an unfamiliar but fundamental aspect of late-medieval art: the role of documentation. Documents played as critical a part in that society as they do in our own. In late-medieval consciousness, the charter loomed as large as the sacred image, and documentation mattered no less than devotion--while the two also had a profound and inextricable connection. Discussion begins with three principal arguments, explained in detail in the first chapter: