Making early medieval societies : conflict and belonging in the Latin West, 300-1200
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Making early medieval societies : conflict and belonging in the Latin West, 300-1200
Cambridge University Press, 2017
- : pbk
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  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
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  United Kingdom
  Germany
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"First paperback edition 2017"--T.p. verso
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
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Making Early Medieval Societies explores a fundamental question: what held the small- and large-scale communities of the late Roman and early medieval West together, at a time when the world seemed to be falling apart? Historians and anthropologists have traditionally asked parallel questions about the rise and fall of empires and how societies create a sense of belonging and social order in the absence of strong governmental institutions. This book draws on classic and more recent anthropologists' work to consider dispute settlement and conflict management during and after the end of the Roman Empire. Contributions range across the internecine rivalries of late Roman bishops, the marital disputes of warrior kings, and the tension between religious leaders and the unruly crowds in western Europe after the first millennium - all considering the mechanisms through which conflict could be harnessed as a force for social stability or an engine for social change.
Table of Contents
- Introduction: making early medieval societies Conrad Leyser
- 1. Property, power, and conflict: rethinking the Constantinian revolution Kate Cooper
- 2. Playing with fire: conflicting bishops in late Roman Spain and Gaul David Natal and Jamie Wood
- 3. After Rome, before Francia: religion, ethnicity, and identity politics in Gregory of Tours' Ten Books of Histories Helmut Reimitz
- 4. 'To mistake gold for wealth': the Venerable Bede and the fate of Northumbria Martin J. Ryan
- 5. The incidence of rebellion in the early medieval West Paul Fouracre
- 6. Disputes and documents in early medieval Italy Marios Costambeys
- 7. Divorce and remarriage between late antiquity and the early Middle Ages: canon law and conflict resolution Riccardo Bof and Conrad Leyser
- 8. The memory of Gregory the Great and the making of Latin Europe, 600-1000 Conrad Leyser
- 9. The weight of opinion: religion and the people of Europe from the tenth to the twelfth century R. I. Moore
- 10. 'The peace in the feud' revisited: feuds in the peace in medieval European feuds Stephen D. White
- Bibliography
- Index.
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