Scrivere in guerra. I notai negli eserciti dell\u2019Italia comunale (secoli XII-XIV)

Within the tradition of Diplomatic studies, since the most ancient contributions concerned with the history of documentation produced by central northern Italy cities, it is possible to point out that very little attention has been paid to the presence of the notaries and to the role of their deeds during military expeditions. The work here proposed aims, first of all, at conducting research into the roles played by the notaries within military organization, marking how they constantly worked together with capitani, costringitori and consiglieri of cities\u2019 armies and saw about the regular registration of the shirkers, of the weapons, of foodstuffs sold to the troops. The second part of this paper will investigate in detail how the registrations were done: we\u2019ll try to put in evidence the connexions between the forms and the functions of a kind of documentation surely \u2018non-typical\u2019, but that seems to represent a further, interesting point of view for observing a side until almost unknown of the so called \u201cdocumentary revolution\u201d and the topos of notarial omnipresence in Middle Ages Italy