'No firmó porque dijo no saber': literate and illiterate speakers in notarial documents of the corpus CODEa of the 16TH AND 17TH CENTURIES

During the 16th and 17th centuries, many notarial documents in Spain, signally those of a private nature, as contracts, began to include the signature (or a note on the incapacity to sign) of the parts. This change occurred in the context of increased literacy rates and of a reform of the notarial a...

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Main Author: Belén Almeida Cabrejas
Format: Article
Language:Spanish
Published: Editorial Universidad de Sevilla 2019-12-01
Series:Philologia Hispalensis
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Online Access:https://revistascientificas.us.es/index.php/PH/article/view/10473