Records and Processes of Dispute Settlement in Early Medieval Societies

Iberia and Beyond
Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-90-04-68295-5
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 41, 426 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 857 g

Reihe: Medieval Law and Its Practice

How can dispute records shed light on the study of dispute settlement processes and their social and political underpinnings? This volume addresses this question by investigating the interplay between record-making, disputing process, and the social and political contexts of conflicts.

The authors make use of exceptionally rich charter materials from the Iberian Peninsula, Italy, and Scandinavia, including different types of texts directly and indirectly related to conflicts, in order to contribute to a comparative survey of early medieval dispute records and to a better understanding of the interplay between judicial and other less formal modes of conflict resolution.

Contributors are Isabel Alfonso, José M. Andrade, François Bougard, Warren C. Brown, Wendy Davies, Julio Escalona, Kim Esmark, Adam J. Kosto, Juan José Larrea, André Evangelista Marques, Josep M. Salrach, Igor Santos Salazar, and Francesca Tinti.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Alfonso, Isabel

Andrade, José M.

Marques, André Evangelista

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Vor- und Frühgeschichte, prähistorische Archäologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

List of Illustrations

Notes on Contributors

Introduction

Isabel Alfonso, José Andrade and André Evangelista Marques

Part 1 Surveying the Corpus of Iberian Dispute Records, 800–1100

1 Documentary Production and Dispute Records in Galicia before the Year 1100

José M. Andrade

2 Documentary Production and Dispute Records in León before the Year 1100

Isabel Alfonso

3 Documentary Production and Dispute Records in Castile before the Year 1100

Isabel Alfonso

4 Documentary Production and Dispute Records in Navarre and Aragon before the Year 1100

Isabel Alfonso

5 Documentary Production and Dispute Records in Catalonia before the Year 1100

Josep M. Salrach

6 From Written Sources to Digital Tools: The PRJ Database of Iberian Judicial Records in Context

Francesca Tinti

Part 2 Recording Disputes: The Textual Construction of Judicial Process

7 Disputing and Dispute Records in the Formulae Visigothicae

Warren C. Brown

8 Creating Records of Judicial Disputes in Northern Iberia before the Year 1000

Wendy Davies

9 Documentary and Procedural Engineering of Judicial Records in Italy (Ninth-Eleventh Centuries)

François Bougard

10 Cum suo scripto: Lay Deperdita and Ecclesiastical Memory in Dispute Records from Castile-Álava and Tuscany (Ninth-Tenth Centuries)

Igor Santos Salazar

Part 3 Framing Disputes: Judicial Authorities and Social Order

11 Versatile Participants in Medieval Judicial Processes: Catalonia, 900–1100

Adam J. Kosto

12 Lines Traced on Mountains: Delimitations and Territorial Disputes in the Western Pyrenees between the Ninth and Eleventh Centuries

Juan José Larrea

13 One Monk, One Donkey, One Dead Man: Contexts for a Homicide in a Tenth-Century Sahagún Charter

Julio Escalona

14 Double Records: Officializing Dispute Settlement in Twelfth-Century Denmark

Kim Esmark

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Isabel Alfonso is Investigadora Científica (retired) at the Instituto de Historia – CSIC. She has published widely on different aspects of medieval rural societies and has pioneered the use of political and legal anthropology in the study of medieval Iberian history. Her latest project made available online the corpus of Iberian dispute records before 1100 (http://prj.csic.es/).

José M. Andrade is Professor of Medieval History at the University of Santiago de Compostela. He has published widely on monastic history and on several aspects of medieval Galician history. His books include El monacato benedictino y la sociedad de la Galicia medieval (siglos X al XIII) (A Coruña, 1997).

André Evangelista Marques is an independent scholar, member of the Institute for Medieval Studies at NOVA University Lisbon. He specialises in the social and material history of early to high medieval Portugal. His books include Da representação documental à materialidade do espaço. Território da diocese de Braga (séculos IX-XI) (Porto, 2014).