Zeller / Czock / West Neighbours and strangers

Local societies in early medieval Europe
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-1-5261-3983-2
Verlag: NYU Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, Band 24, 304 Seiten

Reihe: Manchester Medieval Studies

This book explores social cohesion in rural settlements in western Europe from 700-1050, asking to what extent settlements, or districts, constituted units of social organisation. It focuses on the interactions, interconnections and networks of people who lived side by side - neighbours. Drawing evidence from most of the current western European countries, the book plots and interrogates the very different practices of this wide range of regions in a systematically comparative framework. It considers the variety of local responses to the supra-local agents of landlords and rulers and the impact, such as it was, of those agents on the small-scale residential group. It also assesses the impact on local societies of the values, instructions and demands of the wider literate world of Christianity, as delivered by local priests.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Zeller, Bernhard

Czock, Miriam

West, Charles

Tinti, Francesca

Stoffella, Marco

Schroeder, Nicolas

Rhijn, Carine Van

Patzold, Steffen

Kohl, Thomas

Davies, Wendy