“Tachygraphers, notaries, and the formation of the ecclesiastical chancellery": making late Roman institutions historical

This note presents the main lines of section 3 of the book “The Collectio Avellana and then Development of Notarial Practices in Late Antiquity”, focusing on the issue of the development of the ecclesiastical chancellery. It presents the main contributions of this section in their historiographical context, highlighting the importance of the book for studies of late Roman institutional and social history.