Overview

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 Benedictine nunnery, Ramiranes) and the peasant communities around them in thirteenth-Century Galicia. They use a Data Base to register 2500 'foros', the typical Galician land contract and more than 8000 people and their goods. The thesis of the authors is that monasteries did not exert their authority upon powerless peasants, but constraint by preexisting networks of local people. Most of the peasants involved in the transactions turned out to be members of 'middle groups' like knights, squires or upper peasants. The book is especially important for all those interested in social perspectives as a means to understand the medieval economy.

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Author:   Reyna Pastor ,  Esther Pascua ,  Ana Rodriguez Lopez ,  Pablo Sanchez Leon
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   40
Dimensions:   Width: 16.50cm , Height: 2.70cm , Length: 24.40cm
Weight:   0.758kg
ISBN:  

9789004119536

ISBN 10:   9004119531
Pages:   334
Publication Date:   24 July 2002
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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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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Reyna Pastor, Ph.D. (1979) in Mediaeval History, Universidad de Buenos Aires and Complutense (Madrid), is Professor at the National Research Centre (CSIC). She has published extensively on peasant community and the feudal society including Resistencias y Luchas campesinas (Madrid, Siglo XXI, 1980). Esther Pascua, Ph.D. (1993) in Mediaeval History, Universidad Complutense (Madrid) is Lecturer at the University of St. Andrews (Scotland). She has published a book on the feudal monarchies (Guerra y Pacto en el Siglo XII, Madrid, 1996) and several articles in English (Journal of Medieval History, 2000). Ana Rodriguez-Lopez, Ph.D. (1992) in Mediaeval History, Universidad Complutense (Madrid) is a Researcher at the Institute of History (CSIC, Madrid). She has published on thirteenth-century Castile including La consolidacion territorial de la monarquia feudal castellana (Madrid, 1994). Pablo Sanchez-Leon, Ph.D. (1993) in History, Universidad Autonoma (Madrid), is Researcher at the same university. He has published on social conflicts and identities in Spanish and European History, including Absolutismo y Comunidad. Los Origenes sociales de la guerra de los comuneros de Castilla (Madrid, Siglo XXI, 1998).

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