Property and power in the early Middle Ages / edited by Wendy Davies and Paul Fouracre.

Other author Davies, Wendy.
Other author Fouracre, Paul.
Format Book
Publication InfoCambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1995.
Descriptionxiv, 322 pages ; 24 cm
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.

Contents The ideology of sharing : apostolic community and ecclesiastical property in the early Middle Ages / David Ganz -- Teutsind, Witlaic, and the history of Merovingian precaria / Ian Wood -- Eternal light and earthly needs : practical aspects of the development of Frankish immunities / Paul Fouracre -- The wary widow / Janet Nelson -- Lordship and justice in the early English kingdom : Oswaldslow revisited / Patrick Wormald -- Adding insult to injury : power, property, and immunities in early medieval Wales / Wendy Davies -- Property transactions and social relations between rulers, bishops, and nobles in early eleventh-century Saxony : the evidence of the Vita Meinwerci / Timothy Reuter -- Monastic exemptions in tenth- and eleventh-century Byzantium / Rosemary Morris -- Property ownership and signorial power in twelfth-century Tuscany / Chris Wickham -- Power and property in early Medieval Europe.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 285-312) and index.
LCCN 95003006
ISBN052143419X