Property and power in the early Middle Ages
By: edited by Wendy Davies and Paul Fouracre.
Contributors: Davies, Wendy, 1942-; Fouracre, Paul.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Cambridge [England]; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 322
Subjects: Land tenure -- Europe -- History.; Property -- Europe -- History.; Power (Social sciences) -- Europe -- History.; Privileges and immunities -- Europe -- History.; Middle Ages.; Europe -- Social conditions -- To 1492.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 285-312) and index.
Table of contents: title: The ideology of sharing : apostolic community and ecclesiastical property in the early Middle Ages / David Ganz; title: Teutsind, Witlaic, and the history of Merovingian precaria / Ian Wood; title: Eternal light and earthly needs : practical aspects of the development of Frankish immunities / Paul Fouracre; title: The wary widow / Janet Nelson; title: Lordship and justice in the early English kingdom : Oswaldslow revisited / Patrick Wormald; title: Adding insult to injury : power, property, and immunities in early medieval Wales / Wendy Davies; title: Property transactions and social relations between rulers, bishops, and nobles in early eleventh-century Saxony : the evidence of the Vita Meinwerci / Timothy Reuter; title: Monastic exemptions in tenth- and eleventh-century Byzantium / Rosemary Morris; title: Property ownership and signorial power in twelfth-century Tuscany / Chris Wickham; title: Power and property in early Medieval Europe.