Spelling correctness as a witness of changing documentary culture in Tuscia (eighth–ninth centuries)

This paper discusses the evolution of documentary culture in early medieval Tuscia by quantitatively examining Latin spelling charter scribes relation to following factors: time, distinction between formulaic and non-formulaic parts document, scribe’s domicile, professional status, document type. The asks what charters tells us about administrative socio-cultural changes production scribal education. research data is 997 from Late Charter Treebank, approach that philological corpus linguistics.