Das öffentliche Notariat bei den Siebenbürger Sachsen im Mittelalter. Ein aktualisierter Überblick
The Public Notary in the Transylvanian Saxon Community of the Middle Ages. An updated Overview

Summary/Abstract: The history of the public notaries in medieval Transylvania also reflects the general development of legal relationships in the Mediterranean, Western, Southern and Central Europe on the fringes of the Latin cultural area. This shows a return to the principles of Roman law, filtered through the procedural activity of the ecclesiastical courts, which can be seen as a crucial factor in the cohesion of Latin Christianity before the sixteenth century. Although the activity of notarial certification was a constant in the Transylvanian legal landscape until the introduction of the Reformation, which abolished the need for an appeal to apostolic courts, the number of studies that explicitly or marginally dealt with the subject remains in historical research, which is particularly interested in Transylvania, still extremely low. // This source-based study was inspired by the most recent translation from Hungarian into Romanian of a work by the historian Sándor Tonk († 2003) that was very important for the study of legal history and, implicitly, the activities of public notaries in late medieval Transylvania: The public notary in medieval Transylvania . It was published as the 26th volume in the book series “Studia Notarialia Hungarica”, in an editorial project that is supervised by the notary Gábor Rokolya and printed with funds from the Hungarian National Chamber of Notaries. // This article is part of the research project »The Rise of an Intellectual Elite in Central Europe: Making Professors at the University of Vienna, 1389-1450«

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