9781526139818: Neighbours and Strangers: Local Societies in Early Medieval Europe

Synopsis

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.

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Rachel Stone is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at King's College, London

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9781526163899: Neighbours and Strangers: Local Societies in Early Medieval Europe

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ISBN 10 :  1526163896 ISBN 13 :  9781526163899
Editeur : Manchester University Press, 2022
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