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Neighbours and Strangers - Local Societies in Early Medieval Europe

English · Hardback

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Informationen zum Autor Rachel Stone is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at King’s College, London Klappentext This book explores rural societies in western Europe from 700-1050. It focuses on the bottom of the social hierarchy, rejectingviews that see rural society exclusively through the structures of lordship and challenging the teleological idea of the residential group as the prototype of the late-medieval structured community. Zusammenfassung This book explores rural societies in western Europe from 700–1050. It focuses on the bottom of the social hierarchy, rejectingviews that see rural society exclusively through the structures of lordship and challenging the teleological idea of the residential group as the prototype of the late-medieval structured community. -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis 1 Questions to pursue2 Setting the scene3 The fabric of local societies: people, land and settlement4 Making groups: collective action in rural settlements5 Shepherds, uncles, owners, scribes: priests as neighbours in early medieval local societies6 Interventions in local societies: lower office holders7 Interventions and interactions8 Neighbours, visitors and strangers: searching for the localIndex

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