Christian Spain and Portugal in the early Middle Ages : texts and societies / Wendy Davies.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Davies, Wendy, 1942- author.

Series:

Collected studies

Variorum collected studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Law--Spain--History--To 1500--Sources.

Law.

History.

Spain--History--711-1516--Sources.

Spain.

Portugal.

Law--Portugal--History--To 1500--Sources.

Portugal--History--To 1385--Sources.

Genre:

Sources.

Physical Description:

pages cm.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, [2020]

Summary:

"A collection of papers in English by one of the foremost historians of the social and economic structure of rural communities, who here examines local societies in rural northern Spain and Portugal in the early middle ages. Principal themes are scribal practice and the analysis of charter texts; gift, sale and wealth; justice and judicial practice. With a focus on practice, on personal relationships and interactions, on mobility and on decision-making, a sense of land and landscape runs throughout. This book offers a substantial corpus of Iberian evidence to set beside Frankish, Italian, English and Scandinavian material and thereby makes it possible for Northern Iberia to play a part in the great debates of early medieval European history that occupy historians"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

The early middle ages and Spanish identity

Local priests and the writing of charters in northern Iberia in the tenth century

Local priests in northern Iberia

Creating records of judicial disputes in northern Iberia before the year 1000 Exchange charters in the kingdom of Asturias-León, 700-

Sale, price and valuation in Galicia and Castile-León in the tenth century

When gift is sale: reciprocities and commodities in tenth-century Christian Iberia

Countergift in tenth-century northern Iberia

Notions of wealth in the charters of ninth- and tenth-century Christian Iberia Water mills and cattle standards : probing the economic comparison between Ireland and Spain in the early middle ages

Free peasants and large landowners in the West

The management of land-use in Old Castile : the early strands of the Becerro Galicano of San Millán de la Cogolla / with David Peterson

Gardens and gardening in early medieval Spain and Portugal

Settling disputes in early medieval Spain and Portugal : a contrast with Wales and Brittany?

Judges and judging : Truth and justice in northern Iberia on the eve of the millennium

Boni homines in northern Iberia : a particularity that raises some general questions

On suretyship in tenth-century northern Iberia.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Davies, Wendy, Christian Spain and Portugal in the early Middle Ages

ISBN:

9780367345754

0367345757

OCLC:

1119619665