Beyond the market : : transactions, property and social networks in monastic Galicia, 1200-1300 /

Beyond the market : : transactions, property and social networks in monastic Galicia, 1200-1300 / / by Esther Pascua Echegaray [and three others].

This volume deals with the social implications of land transactions, especially with the role of personal and institutional networks in a precapitalist society. The four authors discuss different aspects of the relationship between three monasteries (two Cistercians, Montederramo and Oseira, and one...

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Superior document:Medieval Mediterranean ; Volume 40
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Pascua Echegaray, Esther,
Place / Publishing House:Leiden, The Netherlands ;, Boston ;, Köln : : Brill,, [2002]
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Year of Publication:2002
Language:English
Series:Medieval Mediterranean ; Volume 40.
Physical Description:1 online resource.
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Table of Contents:
  • Foreword
  • List of Contributors
  • Introduction: Transactions, Social Relations, and Monasticism in the Rural Medieval World
  • I. The Logic of Exchange: Redistribution and Reciprocity... 3
  • II. The Dynamics of Society: Power and Social Relations...10
  • III. Methods: Microhistory and Computerized Analysis...17
  • IV: The Articles. 23
  • Vassals and Allies in Conflict: Relations Between Santa Maria De Montederramo and Local Galician Society in the Thirteenth Century / Esther Pascua
  • Introduction: Personal Relationships and the Circulation of Goods.27
  • I. Social Agents. 36
  • II. The Processes...79
  • Monasticism, Lineage, and Community: Collective Organizations in Medieval Galician Society: (San Pedro de Ramiranes, 1200-1300) / Pablo Sanchez-Leon
  • Introduction: The Social and Economic Dynamics of Class Organization...109
  • I. The End of the Civil Wars and the Introduction of Monastic Feudalism to Galicia...112
  • II. 'Patrimonialism' and Feudalism: the Social and Economic Foundations of Organizations in Pre-Industrial Societies...120
  • III. The Community of Nuns and the Definition of Inheritance within the Local Nobility...130
  • IV. The Clerical Chapter and the Gender-Based Division of Labour and Power...140
  • V. Knights, Landowners, and the Individualization of Property Rights within the Monastery...148
  • VI. Conclusions: Long-Term Class Organization and Social Differentiation...163
  • Monastic Strategy and Local Relations: The Social Influence of the Monastery of Oseira in the Thirteenth Century / Ana Rodriguez-Lopez
  • Introduction: Cistercian Organization and Local Power...173
  • I. The Social World of Local Milites...176
  • II. Monastic Strategy and Local Relations...181
  • Social Mobility and the Personal Networks of 'Low-Intermediate Social Groups': Relations Between Communities of Peasants and Foreros and the Monastery of Oseira in the Thirteenth Century / Reyna Pastor
  • Introduction...247
  • I. Peasant Communities and their Relations with Oseira...248
  • II. Foreros and the Monastery's Personal Networks...290
  • Bibliography...319
  • Maps...325.

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