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

Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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...

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• Authors: Jeffery Bowman, Jeffrey A. Bowman, Jeffrey A. (Assistant Professor of History Bowman
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 19.01.2004
• EAN: 9780801439902
• ISBN: 978-0-8014-3990-2
• No. of pages: 304
• Series: Conjunctions of Religion & Pow; Conjunctions of Religion and Power in the Medieval Past; Conjunctions of Religion and P
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Social sciences, law, business > Law > Civil law, civil procedural law