Gest, oralitate, memorie: jurământul la hotar în secolele XIV-XV în Transilvania

Abstract:

In 1985 at the 16 th International Congress of Historical Sciences in Stuttgart, Germany, historians debated the idea of human behaviour and anthropology, as parts of researching history of mentalities. Both history of gesture and orality belong to the history of mentalities, while analysing the juridical procedure of former centuries can change the contemporary perception about the medieval justice. A large number of Transylvanian documents from the 14 th -15 th centuries refer to the borders of communities or estates, containing elements of a ritual composed of gestures and words. The memory of such rituals was written down in documents highlighting the value of the oral oath associated both with the ritual performed between neighbours, and with the individuals taking the respective oath.

Keywords:

memory, writing, gesture, border oath, Transylvania, 14th-15th centuries