Notarii and Exceptores : : An Inquiry into Role and Significance of Shorthand Writers in the Imperial and Ecclesiastical Bureaucracy of the Roman Empire (from the Early Principate to C. 450 A. D. ).

• Superior document: Dutch Monographs on Ancient History and Archaeology
• Author: Teitler, Hans C.
• Place / Publishing House: Piraí : : BRILL,, 1985.; ©1985.
• Year of Publication: 1985
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Dutch Monographs on Ancient History and Archaeology
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (400 pages)

In 411 AD an ecclesiastical conference was held in Carthage under the presidency of Flavius Marcellinus, tribunus et notarius. On that occasion exceptores and notarii ecclesiastici acted as shorthand writers. Thus at this conference we meet three species of one genus at different stages of their dev...

Table of Contents

• Intro
• NOTARII AND EXCEPTORES
• Copyright
• CONTENTS
• PREFACE
• TECHNICAL POINTS
• I INTRODUCTION
• II NOTARII AND EXCEPTORES AND TACHYGRAPHY
• 1 Notarii and exceptores in Late Antiquity
• 2 The edict of Flavius MARCELLINUS
• 3 An exceptor reads aloud ex codice notarwn
• 4 The work of a notrius
• III IMPERIAL NOTARII AND TACHYGRAPHY
• 1 Tribuni et notarii at the beginning of the fifth century
• 2 Tribuni et notarii: imperial notarii
• 3 Imperial notarii and tachygraphy in the first half of the fourth century
• IV TACHYGRAPHERS AND THE EMPEROR
• 1 Tachygraphy: slave labour? (I)
• 2 Digression on the meaning of the words notarius and exceptor
• 3 Tachygraphy: slave labour? (II)
• 4 Notarii and the emperor: changes in the fourth century
• V IMPERIAL NOTARII DURING THE PRINCIPATE
• 1 Slaves and freedmen
• 2 Litterati milites
• 3 Tribuni et notarii
• VI THE 'GOLDEN AGE' OF THE IMPERIAL NOTARII
• 1 The incipience of the schola notariorum
• 2 Tribuni et notarii: officiales-with-officer-rank
• 3 The hierarchy within the schola notariorun
• 4 The social origins of imperial notarii at the beginning of the fourth century
• 5 Clarissimi and spectabiles
• VII EXCEPTORES
• 1 Exceptores in the officia
• 2 Hierarchical and other differences
• 3 Clarissimi
• 4 Apocryphal exceptores
• VIII NOTARII ECCLESIASTICI
• 1 Papal notarii
• 2 Deacons, presbyters and lectores
• 3 Militia Christi and Militia Caesaris
• IX EPILOGUE
• 1 Notarii and exceptores and tachygraphy
• 2 An inquiry in 449
• X APPENDIX PROSOPOGRAPHICA
• XI APPENDIX ON THE TERM NOTA
• NOTES
• ABBREVIATIONS
• 1 Original sources
• 2 General works of reference, collections and periodicals
• 3 General
• LIST OF WORKS CONSULTED
• 1 Original sources
• 2 Secondary sources
• INDICES
• 1 Sources
• 2 Proper names
• 3 Fasti
• a Imperial notarii.
• b Ecclesiastical notarii
• c Exaeptores
• 4 Latin terms
• 5 Greek terms
• 6 Modern authors.