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| | Vernacularity: The Politics of Language and Style |
 | | While Latin was still the official language used in the chancellery of the Bishop of Wuerzburg, German was occasioanlly found in documents of the aristocracy as early as the late thirteenth century. |
 | | As protonotary, Michael, a graduate of Bologna, was the guardian of the episcopal seal, and his administrative duties included orders and ratifications in the clerical field, contracts of purchase or sale, promissory notes, contracts of settlements, legislation in times of epidemics, letters to protect the Jews, and donations. |
 | | In his later years, while he was canon and scholasticus of Neumuenster, Michael commissioned and compiled several miscellany manuscripts, among them a book of formularies known as the "Ebrach-manuscript", and the "Manuale" for the collegiate church, as well as the "Hausbuch", a commonplace book or home companion for his personal use. |
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