Christian Spain and Portugal in the Early Middle Ages

Texts and Societies

By:

Wendy Davies

Format:

Hardback

Series:

Variorum Collected Studies

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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. The 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. (CS1084).

Author Biography:

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.

Release date NZ

December 10th, 2019

Author

Wendy Davies

Audiences

General (US: Trade)
Tertiary Education (US: College)

Illustrations

14 Tables, black and white; 1 Line drawings, black and white; 3 Halftones, black and white

Pages

308

Series

Variorum Collected Studies

ISBN-13

9780367345754

Product ID

31649957

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