Property and Power in the Early Middle AgesWendy Davies, Paul Fouracre This is a collection of original essays on the relationship between property and power, a fundamental theme in medieval history. It addresses four main issues: the meaning of power over property; the ways in which property conveyed power; the nature of immunities; and the power of royal authority to affect property relations. The areas studied include Wales, England, France, Germany, Italy, and Byzantium, and the essays range across the period 650-1150. |
Contents
The ideology of sharing apostolic community and ecclesiastical property in the early middle ages | 17 |
Teutsind Witlaic and the history of Merovingian precaria | 31 |
Eternal light and earthly needs practical aspects of the development of Frankish immunities | 53 |
The wary widow Appendix 1 the Latin text of Erkanfridas will | 82 |
Lordship and justice in the early English kingdom Oswaldslow revisited | 114 |
Adding insult to injury power property and immunities in early medieval Wales | 137 |
Property transactions and social relations between rulers bishops and nobles in early eleventhcentury Saxony the evidence of the Vita Meinwerci App... | 165 |
Monastic exemptions in tenthand eleventhcentury Byzantium | 200 |
Property ownership and signorial power in twelfthcentury Tuscany | 221 |
Conclusion property and power in early medieval Europe | 245 |
Glossary | 272 |
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