Acts of Giving - Individual, Community, and Church in Tenth-Century Christian Spain

Zusatztext ...it is most encouraging to find that an experienced and thoughtful expert such as Wendy Davies has devoted great care to understanding these documents...This is what archival research ought to be...an object lesson in how to read awkward archival data and draw undistracted conclusions from them, with a result that will be of use to future historians of many perspectives. Klappentext Acts of Giving examines issues surrounding donation-the giving of property, particularly landed property-in northern Spain during the tenth century. Exploring the place of giving within a broad complex of social and economic concerns, Wendy Davies highlights the centrality of Spain to some of the core themes of medieval European history. Zusammenfassung Acts of Giving examines issues surrounding donation-the giving of property, particularly landed property-in northern Spain during the tenth century. Exploring the place of giving within a broad complex of social and economic concerns, Wendy Davies highlights the centrality of Spain to some of the core themes of medieval European history. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1: Setting the Scene i: Land and People ii: History 2: San Pedro and Santa Comba: churches and their proprietors 3: Dividing and sharing property 4: The language of donation 5: Donation to churches: purpose and expectations 6: Gesmira, Recosinda, and Nuño Sarracíniz: donation to lay persons 7: Men and women 8: Peasant society 9: Rhetoric and action Bibliography

Product details

• Authors: Wendy Davies, Wendy (Professor of History Davies, Davies Wendy
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.10.2007
• EAN: 9780199283408
• ISBN: 978-0-19-928340-8
• No. of pages: 260
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; European History, Spain, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, RELIGION / Christianity / History, RELIGION / Christianity / General, Christianity, CE period up to c 1500, History of Religion, Social and cultural history, Early history: c 500 to c 1450/1500, Church history, c 500 to c 1000 CE, European history: medieval period, middle ages, HISTORY / Europe / Medieval, C 500 CE To C 1000 CE, HISTORY / Europe / Spain