Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of maps
- Preface
- List of abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 The ideology of sharing: apostolic community and ecclesiastical property in the early middle ages
- 2 Teutsind, Witlaic and the history of Merovingian precaria
- 3 Eternal light and earthly needs: practical aspects of the development of Frankish immunities
- 4 The wary widow
- 5 Lordship and justice in the early English kingdom: Oswaldslow revisited
- 6 Adding insult to injury: power, property and immunities in early medieval Wales
- 7 Property transactions and social relations between rulers, bishops and nobles in early eleventh-century Saxony: the evidence of the Vita Meinwerci
- 8 Monastic exemptions in tenth- and eleventh-century Byzantium
- 9 Property ownership and signorial power in twelfth-century Tuscany
- 10 Conclusion: property and power in early medieval Europe
- Glossary
- List of works cited
- Index
Preface
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 January 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of maps
- Preface
- List of abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 The ideology of sharing: apostolic community and ecclesiastical property in the early middle ages
- 2 Teutsind, Witlaic and the history of Merovingian precaria
- 3 Eternal light and earthly needs: practical aspects of the development of Frankish immunities
- 4 The wary widow
- 5 Lordship and justice in the early English kingdom: Oswaldslow revisited
- 6 Adding insult to injury: power, property and immunities in early medieval Wales
- 7 Property transactions and social relations between rulers, bishops and nobles in early eleventh-century Saxony: the evidence of the Vita Meinwerci
- 8 Monastic exemptions in tenth- and eleventh-century Byzantium
- 9 Property ownership and signorial power in twelfth-century Tuscany
- 10 Conclusion: property and power in early medieval Europe
- Glossary
- List of works cited
- Index
Summary
This book, like its predecessor The Settlement of Disputes in Early Medieval Europe, is meant to be read as a book and not as a collection of separate essays. It arises from the ongoing collaboration of the group and from our agreement to look at some key issues concerning property, and power over property, in different parts of early medieval Europe. As before, we have talked over each other's contributions at length, and agreed the content of introduction and conclusion.
Charter weekends have gone on. We have continued to meet regularly, in Bucknell, to discuss old and new approaches to the early middle ages and to find some healthy criticism for our individual work in hand. We share a common approach but have plenty to learn, and we each benefit from the interaction. Tim Reuter and David Ganz, who were part of the original group although unable to contribute to Disputes, came to meetings from the late 1980s and have written papers here. Richard Sharpe has come regularly to meetings, and contributed to discussion and to the shape and content of this book, but does not have a named paper in it.
We want our ideas to be accessible and are anxious that students should read and use this volume as well as scholars and specialists. We have therefore again included a glossary of early medieval words and concepts; this is a simple guide – intentionally so – and is not a comprehensive survey.
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- Property and Power in the Early Middle Ages , pp. xi - xiiPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1995