Negotiating Space : : Power, Restraint, and Privileges of Immunity in Early Medieval Europe / / Barbara H. Rosenwein.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
• VerfasserIn: Rosenwein, Barbara H.,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018]; ©1999
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (304 p.) :; 6 maps, 2 halftones, 5 charts

Why did early medieval kings declare certain properties to be immune from the judicial and fiscal encroachments of their own agents? Did weakness compel them to prohibit their agents from entering these properties, as historians have traditionally believed? In a richly detailed book that will be gre...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Illustrations
• Prefatory Note
• Acknowledgments
• Abbreviations
• Introduction
• PART I. Prohibitions
• 1. Late Antique Traditions
• 2. Entry and Encroachment
• 3. The "Secret Enclosure"
• 4. The Heyday of Merovingian Immunities
• PART II. Control
• 5. "Playing a New Tune": The Carolingians
• 6. A Meeting of Minds
• PART III. Divergence
• 7. A Gift-Giving King
• 8. The Making of the Sacred Ban
• 9. "A Man's House is his Castle": Anglo-American Echoes
• Conclusion. Political Theory on the Ground
• Appendix 1. An Immunity of King Theuderic III (October 30, 688): ChLA 13 :go-91, no. 570*
• Appendix 2. A Comparison of Key Clauses in Gorze, no. 4, and Marculf, no. 1 *
• Appendix 3. An Immunity of Charlemagne (December 6, 777): ChLA 19:28-33, no. 679*
• Appendix 4. Carolingian Immunities and Asylum*
• Appendix 5. A Concession of King Berengar (August 24, 906): DBer no. 65, pp. 177-78*
• Appendix 6. Foundation Charters of Cluny (B.N.F. Coli. Bourg. 76, no.s) and Pothieres IV ezelay (Auxerre, Bibliotheque Municipale MS 227, 22-24V): Key Clauses Compared*
• Appendix 7. An Immunity of John XI (March 931): Zimmermann 1:107-8, no. 64 *
• Selected Bibliography
• Index