The Settlement of disputes in early medieval Europe / edited by Wendy Davies and Paul Fouracre.

This is a collection of original essays on the settlement of disputes in the early middle ages, a subject of central importance for social and political history. Case material, from the evidence of charters, is used to reveal the realities of the settlement process in the behaviour and interactions...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Cambridge)
Other Authors: Davies, Wendy, 1942-, Fouracre, Paul
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge [U.K.] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1986.
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Table of Contents:
  • Disputes in late fifth- and sixth-century Gaul : some problems / Ian Wood
  • 'Placita' and the settlement of disputes in later Merovingian Francia / Paul Fouracre
  • Dispute settlement in Carolingian West Francia / Janet L. Nelson
  • People and places in dispute in ninth-century Brittany / Wendy Davies
  • Visigothic law and regional custom in disputes in early medieval Spain / Roger Collins
  • Land disputes and their social framework in Lombard-Carolingian Italy, 700-900 / Chris Wickham
  • Dispute settlement in the Byzantine provinces in the tenth century / Rosemary Morris
  • Charters, law and the settlement of disputes in Anglo-Saxon England / Patrick Wormald
  • Dispute settlement in medieval Ireland : a preliminary inquiry / Richard Sharpe
  • An early modern postscript : the Sandlaw dispute, 1546 / Jenny Wormald.