Buch, Englisch, 304 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 567 g
Buch, Englisch, 304 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 567 g
ISBN: 978-1-4094-6473-0
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
What is interesting, in the wider European context, is that some of the so-called characteristics of the Carolingian world – the public court, collective judgment – are as characteristic of the Iberian world. The suggestion that they disappeared in the Frankish world, to be replaced by 'private' mechanisms, has played a major role in debates about the changing nature of power in the central middle ages: what happened in judicial courts has been central to the grand narratives of Duby and successive historians, for they are a powerful lens into the very real issues of politics and power.
Looking at the practice of judicial courts in Europe west of Frankia allows us to think again about the nature of the public; identifying all the records of that practice allows us to adjust the balance between monastic and lay activity. What these show is that peasants, like other lay people, used the courts to seek redress and gain advantages. Records were not entirely framed nor practice entirely dominated by ecclesiastical interests.
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Prologue / Orientation / Part I The Texts: The structure of dispute records / Appendix / Material questions / Formulaic writing / The language of dispute texts / Coda / Appendix / Part II Implications: Roles / Power / Local responses / A view on northern Iberia in the European context / Where is justice? / Bibliography / Indexes.