Shifting Landmarks : : Property, Proof, and Dispute in Catalonia around the Year 1000 / / Jeffrey A. Bowman.

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 in the province of Narbonne. He examines the sys...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013
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Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018]
©2004
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
Series:Conjunctions of Religion and Power in the Medieval Past
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Physical Description:1 online resource (304 p.) :; 2 maps, 2 halftones
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • PREFACE
  • ABBREVIATIONS
  • INTRODUCTION
  • PART I. COURTS AND CODES
  • CHAPTER ONE. SICUT LEX EDOCET: REMEMBERING AND FORGETTING THE WRITTEN LAW
  • CHAPTER TWO. DO NEO-ROMANS CURSE? LAND, LAW, AND RITUAL
  • CHAPTER THREE. DILIGITE IUSTITIAM QJJI IUDICATIS TERRAM: JUDGES IN COURT AND SOCIETY
  • CHAPTER FOUR. COURTS AND THE ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE
  • PART II: PROOFS AND STRATEGIES
  • CHAPTER FIVE. COLD CAULDRONS AND THE SMOLDERING HAND: THE JUDICIAL ORDEAL
  • CHAPTER SIX. FIGHTING WITH WRITTEN RECORDS
  • CHAPTER SEVEN. COMMUNITY, MEMORY, AND PROOF: THE PLACE OF WITNESS TESTIMONY
  • PART III. ENDINGS AND CONTEXTS
  • CHAPTER EIGHT. WINNING, LOSING, AND RESISTING: HOW DISPUTES ENDED
  • CHAPTER NINE. JUSTICE AND VIOLENCE IN MEDIEVAL EUROPE
  • INDEX