Overview
Neighbours and strangers explores social cohesion in rural settlements in western Europe from 700-1050, asking to what extent settlements, or districts, constituted units of social organisation. It focuses on the interactions, interconnections and networks of people who lived side by side neighbours. Drawing evidence from most of the current western European countries, the book plots and interrogates the very different practices of this wide range of regions in a systematically comparative framework. It considers the variety of local responses to the supra-local agents of landlords and rulers and the impact, such as it was, of those agents on the small-scale residential group. It also assesses the impact on local societies of the values, instructions and demands of the wider literate world of Christianity, as delivered by local priests.
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Author: Bernhard Zeller ,
Charles West ,
Francesca Tinti (Ikerbasque Research Professor) ,
Marco Stoffella (Professore aggregato (lecturer) in Medieval History)
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Imprint: Manchester University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 13.80cm
, Height: 1.90cm
, Length: 21.60cm
Weight: 0.503kg
ISBN: 9781526139818
ISBN 10: 1526139812
Pages: 304
Publication Date: 13 March 2020
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Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Manufactured on demand
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Reviews
'[...] a valuable handbook, enabling young medievalists to shape their research according to an innovative methodology which has succeeded in escaping the confines of the master narratives that long characterized European medieval studies.' Speculum -- .
Author Information
Bernhard Zeller is Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Medieval Research of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria. Charles West is Reader in Medieval History in the Department of History at the University of Sheffield, UK. Francesca Tinti is Ikerbasque Research Professor in the Department of Medieval, Modern and American History at the University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU, Spain Marco Stoffella is Research Fellow and Adjunct Professor in Medieval History at the University of Verona, Italy. Nicolas Schroeder is Assistant Professor in Medieval History at the Universit libre de Bruxelles, Belgium. Carine van Rhijn is Lecturer in the Department of History and Art History at the University of Utrecht, Netherlands. Steffen Patzold is Professor of Medieval History in the Department of History at the University of Tbingen, Germany. Thomas Kohl is Acting Professor in the Department of History at the University of Tbingen, Germany Wendy Davies is Professor Emerita of History at University College London and Associate Member in the Faculty of History at the University of Oxford, UK. Miriam Czock is Senior lecturer in the History Department at the University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany.
