Property and power in the early Middle Ages / edited by Wendy Davies and Paul Fouracre.

Format:

• Book

Contributor:

• Davies, Wendy, 1942-
• Fouracre, Paul.
• Cambridge Books Online.
• Constance L. Rosenthal Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Land tenure--Europe--History.
• Property--Europe--History.
• Power (Social sciences)--Europe--History.
• Privileges and immunities--Europe--History.
• Middle Ages.
• Privileges and immunities.
• History.
• Power (Social sciences).
• Property.
• Land tenure.
• Europe--Social conditions--To 1492.
• Europe.
• Social conditions.

Genre:

• Electronic books.

Physical Description:

• 1 online resource (xiv, 322 pages) : maps
• polychrome

Place of Publication:

Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1995.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

A collection of original essays on the relationship between property and power in early medieval Europe.

Contents:

• The ideology of sharing : apostolic community and ecclesiastical property in the early Middle Ages / David Ganz
• Teutsind, Witlaic, and the history of Merovingian precaria / Ian Wood
• Eternal light and earthly needs : practical aspects of the development of Frankish immunities / Paul Fouracre
• The wary widow / Janet Nelson
• Lordship and justice in the early English kingdom : Oswaldslow revisited / Patrick Wormald
• Adding insult to injury : power, property, and immunities in early medieval Wales / Wendy Davies
• Property transactions and social relations between rulers, bishops, and nobles in early eleventh-century Saxony : the evidence of the Vita Meinwerci / Timothy Reuter
• Monastic exemptions in tenth- and eleventh-century Byzantium / Rosemary Morris
• Property ownership and signorial power in twelfth-century Tuscany / Chris Wickham
• Power and property in early Medieval Europe.

Notes:

• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Description based on print version record.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Constance L. Rosenthal Book Fund.

Other Format:

Print version: Property and power in the early Middle Ages.

ISBN:

• 9780511882456
• 0511882459

OCLC:

708563880

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.

Online:

The Constance L. Rosenthal Book Fund Home Page