Law Culture And Regionalism In Early Medieval Spain

Author : Roger Collins
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Law, Culture, and Regionalism in Early Medieval Spain written by Roger Collins and published by Routledge. This book was released on 1992 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collection of essays and conference papers originally published 1977-1991.

Author : Graham Barrett
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192895370
Total Pages : 549 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Text and Textuality in Early Medieval Iberia written by Graham Barrett and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023 with total page 549 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Text and Textuality in Early Medieval Iberia is a study of the functions and conceptions of writing and reading, documentation and archives, and the role of literate authorities in the Christian kingdoms of the northern Iberian Peninsula between the Muslim conquest of 711 and the fall of the Islamic caliphate at Córdoba in 1031. Based on the first complete survey of the over 4,000 surviving Latin charters from the period, it is an essay in the archaeology and biography of text: part one concerns materiality, tracing the lifecycle of charters from initiation and composition to preservation and reuse, while part two addresses connectivity, delineating a network of texts through painstaking identification of more than 2,000 citations of other charters, secular and canon law, the Bible, liturgy, and monastic rules. Few may have been able to read or write, yet the extent of textuality was broad and deep, in the authority conferred upon text and the arrangements made to use it. Via charter and scribe, society and social arrangements came increasingly to be influenced by norms originating from a network of texts. By profiling the intersection and interaction of text with society and culture, Graham Barrett reconstructs textuality, how the authority of the written and the structures to access it framed and constrained actions and cultural norms, and proposes a new model of early medieval reading. As they cited other texts, charters circulated fragments of those texts; we must rethink the relationship of sources and audiences to reflect fragmentary transmission, in a textuality of imperfect knowledge.

Author : Adam J. Kosto
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139432168
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Making Agreements in Medieval Catalonia written by Adam J. Kosto and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2001-05-03 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the role of written agreements in eleventh- and twelfth-century Catalonia, and how they determined the social and political order. However, in addressing feudalism, the 'transformation of the year 1000', medieval literacy, and the nature of Mediterranean societies, it has wide implications for the history of medieval Europe.

Author : Julian of Toledo
Publisher : CUA Press
ISBN 13 : 0813214122
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Story of Wamba written by Julian of Toledo and published by CUA Press. This book was released on 2005-10 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author found himself at the beginning of a career that would raise him to the apex of the ecclesiastical hierarchy as bishop of Toledo, but that would also see him involved, suspiciously, in the deposition of Wamba that same year."

Author : Jamie Wood
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004224327
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Politics of Identity in Visigothic Spain written by Jamie Wood and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2012-03-20 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Previous scholarship has interpreted Bishop Isidore of Seville (d. 636) retrospectively as the architect of the medieval Spanish church, as the father of Spanish identity, and as a key figure in the transmission of Classical and Patristic learning to the Middle Ages. Drawing on recent studies on identity formation in the early medieval period and an upsurge in interest in late antique Spain, this book examines the historical Isidore as a social actor managing a complex web of responsibilities and relationships. A comparative analysis of Isidore's historical works demonstrates that writing about the past was a method for reconciling Visigothic kings, nobles and Spanish bishops in a period of transformation. This results in a fresh portrait of Isidore as motivated, both politically and pastorally, to balance competing interests and ensure the spiritual and material security of the people of Spain.

Author : Cullen J. Chandler
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108474640
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Carolingian Catalonia written by Cullen J. Chandler and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-10 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the political development of the Carolingian Spanish March and revises traditional interpretations of Catalonia's political and constitutional history.

Author : Walter Pohl
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004609512
Total Pages : 373 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Strategies of Distinction written by Walter Pohl and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-08-14 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between the fourth and the eight century, a number of 'experimental' polities had to create new forms of legitimacy and organisation to overcome a Roman world based on Empire, city and tribe. In the course of time, a new world developed that relied on Christendom, kingdom and people to pull an increased variety of local communities together. Of these three factors, the ethnic one certainly is the most elusive. This volume discusses the process of construction of ethnic identities. What did names, law, language, costume, burial rites, rhetoric, culture, royal representation or ideology mean, and to whom? This is the question that is common to the papers assembled here. Even though they span several centuries, and a geographic area from the Iberian peninsula to the Black Sea steppes, they all deal with the ways how ethnic distinction became a political factor in the post-Roman world.

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004423877
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beyond the Reconquista: New Directions in the History of Medieval Iberia (711-1085) written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-04-14 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beyond the Reconquista: New Directions in the History of Medieval Iberia (711-1085) offers an exciting series of essays by leading scholars in Hispanic Studies. This volume subjects the reality and ideal of Reconquest to a decisive and timely re-examination.

Author : Roger Collins
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118730011
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Caliphs and Kings written by Roger Collins and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2014-01-28 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CALIPHS AND KINGS: SPAIN, 796-1031 The last twenty-five years have seen a renaissance of research and writing on Spanish history. Caliphs and Kings offers a formidable synthesis of existing knowledge as well as an investigation into new historical thinking, perspectives, and methods. The nearly three-hundred-year rule of the Umayyad dynasty in Spain (756-1031) has been hailed by many as an era of unprecedented harmony and mutual tolerance between the three great religious faiths in the Iberian Peninsula – Christianity, Judaism, and Islam – the like of which has never been seen since. And yet, as this book demonstrates, historical reality defies the myth. Though the middle of the tenth century saw a flowering of artistic culture and sophistication in the Umayyad court and in the city of Córdoba, this period was all too shortlived and localized. Eventually, twenty years of civil war caused the implosion of the Umayyad regime. It is through the forces that divided – not united – the disparate elements in Spanish society that we may best glean its nature and its lessons. Caliphs and Kings is devoted to better understanding those circumstances, as historian Roger Collins takes a fresh look at certainties, both old and new, to strip ninth- and tenth-century Spain of its mythic narrative, revealing the more complex truth beneath.

Author : Heikki Pihlajamäki
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191088382
Total Pages : 1264 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of European Legal History written by Heikki Pihlajamäki and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-07-04 with total page 1264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: European law, including both civil law and common law, has gone through several major phases of expansion in the world. European legal history thus also is a history of legal transplants and cultural borrowings, which national legal histories as products of nineteenth-century historicism have until recently largely left unconsidered. The Handbook of European Legal History supplies its readers with an overview of the different phases of European legal history in the light of today's state-of-the-art research, by offering cutting-edge views on research questions currently emerging in international discussions. The Handbook takes a broad approach to its subject matter both nationally and systemically. Unlike traditional European legal histories, which tend to concentrate on "heartlands" of Europe (notably Italy and Germany), the Europe of the Handbook is more versatile and nuanced, taking into consideration the legal developments in Europe's geographical "fringes" such as Scandinavia and Eastern Europe. The Handbook covers all major time periods, from the ancient Greek law to the twenty-first century. Contributors include acknowledged leaders in the field as well as rising talents, representing a wide range of legal systems, methodologies, areas of expertise and research agendas.