(Source: Routledge)
Routledge is publishing a
collection of papers by Wendy Davies on Early Medieval Spain and Portugal, and
which also includes legal historical articles.
ABOUT THE BOOK
A collection of papers in English
by one of the foremost historians of the social and economic structure of
medieval 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 procedures. Always with a concern for personal
relationships and interactions, for mobility, for decision-making and for
practice, a sense of land and landscape runs throughout. Spanish and Portuguese
experience has seemed irrelevant to the great debates of early medieval
European history that occupy historians. But Spain and Portugal shared the late
Roman heritage which influenced much of western Europe in the early middle ages
and by the tenth century records and practice in Christian Iberia still shared
features with the Carolingian world. 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
these great debates of medieval European history.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Wendy Davies taught medieval
European history and was also successively Head of the History Department,
Deans of Arts and of Social and Historical Sciences, and Pro-Provost (Europe)?
at UCL until she retired in 2007. She remains active in research: while her
personal research initially centred on Wales and then Brittany, in the last
twenty years northern Iberia in the early middle ages has been the focus. She
is an Associate Member of the History Faculty, University of Oxford.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. The early middle ages and
Spanish identity
I Charter Writing
2. Local priests and the writing
of charters in northern Iberia in the tenth century
3. Local priests in northern
Iberia
4. Creating records of judicial
disputes in northern Iberia before the year 1000
5. Exchange charters in the
kingdom of Asturias-León, 700-1000
II Production and Exchange
6. Sale, price and valuation in
Galicia and Castile-León in the tenth century
7. When gift is sale:
reciprocities and commodities in tenth-century Christian Iberia
8. Countergift in tenth-century
northern Iberia
9. Notions of wealth in the
charters of ninth- and tenth-century Christian Iberia
10. Water mills and cattle
standards; probing the economic comparison between Ireland and Spain in the
early middle ages
11. Free peasants and large
landowners in the West
12. With David Peterson, The
management of land-use in Old Castile: the early strands of the Becerro
Galicano of San Millán de la Cogolla
13. Gardens and gardening in
early medieval Spain and Portugal
III Judicial Practice
14. Settling disputes in early
medieval Spain and Portugal: a contrast with Wales and Brittany?
15. Judges and judging. Truth and
justice in northern Iberia on the eve of the millennium
16. Boni homines in
northern Iberia. A particularity that raises some general questions
17. On suretyship in
tenth-century northern Iberia
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