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The Settlement of Disputes in Early Medieval Europe

By Paul Fouracre , Wendy Davies

Book information

Year
1992
ISBN
0521428955, 9780521428958
Open Library ID
OL21503655M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
11 MB (11320365 bytes)
Pages
320\317
Topic
History
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

This is a collection of original essays on the settlement of disputes in the early middle ages, a subject of central importance for social and political history. Case material, from the evidence of charters, is used to reveal the realities of the settlement process in the behaviour and interactions of people - instead of the prescriptive and idealised models of law-codes and edicts. The book is not therefore a technical study of charters evidence. The geographical range across Europe is unusually wide, which allows comparison across differing societies. Frankish material is inevitably prominent, but the contributors have sought to integrate Celtic, Greek, Italian and Spanish material into the mainstream of the subject. Above all, the book aims to 'demystify' the study of early medieval law, and to present a radical reappraisal of established assumptions about law and society.

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