Shifting Landmarks: Property, Proof, and Dispute in Catalonia Around the Year 1000 - Couverture rigide

Livre 6 sur 22: Conjunctions of Religion and Power in the Medieval Past

Bowman, Jeffrey A.

 
9780801439902: Shifting Landmarks: Property, Proof, and Dispute in Catalonia Around the Year 1000
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0801439906 ISBN 13 : 9780801439902
Editeur : Cornell University Press, 2004

Synopsis

In a major contribution to the debate among medievalists about the nature of social and political change in Europe around the turn of the millennium, Jeffrey A. Bowman explores how people contended over property during the tenth and eleventh centuries in the province of Narbonne. He examines the system of courts and judges that weighed property disputes and shows how disputants and judges gradually adapted, modified, and reshaped legal traditions. The region (which comprised Catalonia and parts of Mediterranean France) possessed a distinctive legal culture, characterized by the prominent role of professional judges, a high level of procedural sophistication, and an intense attachment to written law, particularly the Visigothic Code. At the same time, disputants relied on a range of strategies (including custom, curses, and judicial ordeals) to resolve conflicts. Chronic tensions stemmed from conflicting understandings of property rights rather than from pervasive violence; the changes Bowman tracks are less signs of a world convulsed in struggle than of a world coursing with vitality. In Shifting Landmarks, property disputes serve as a bridge between the author's inquiry into learned ideas about justice, land, and the law and his close examination of the rough-and-tumble practice of daily life. Throughout, Bowman finds intimate connections among ink and parchment, sweat and earth.

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À propos de l?auteur

Jeffrey A. Bowman is John B. McCoy-Bank One Distinguished Teaching Professor of History at Kenyon College.

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Éditeur
Cornell University Press
Date d'édition
2004
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0801439906
ISBN 13 
9780801439902
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
304
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