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The Text of Visigothic Law in Practice [PDF]
, 2020 This essay is a case study in the textual transmission of the Visigothic law code or Book of Judgements (Liber Iudiciorum). Rather than relying solely on manuscript copies, I draw on charters as sources for the text, and by tracking the citation of treason law across the corpus of documentation from early medieval Asturias-León and Navarra, I identify ...
Wood, Jamie
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THE LOCUS IN THE CONTEXT OF LATE ANTIQUE SPAIN
Journal of Ancient History and Archaeology, 2020 At a conference some years ago, I briefly examined the relationship between local power and wine production in Visigothic Spain. On that occasion, I mentioned the transformed legal nature of the locus, a topic I now wish to explore further, in the same ...
Adriaan De Man
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Missing Queens: Gender, Dynasty and Power in Vandal Africa
Gender &History, Volume 34, Issue 1, Page 3-21, March 2022., 2022 Abstract This paper reconsiders a curious aspect of the Vandal kingdom of North Africa (439–533 ce): the total absence of women called Vandals in extant sources. It argues that these missing Vandal women are the women of the Hasding royal dynasty. The non‐application of the ethnic terminology to the consorts, sisters and daughters of kings and princes ...
Robin Whelan
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Early Medieval Europe, Volume 29, Issue 4, Page 555-585, November 2021., 2021 In the early medieval west, patronate, as adapted from Roman law, was a fundamental category in determining the legal status of freedmen. In many cases it entailed a basic set of obligations. In an increasing number of situations, however, the patron became an ecclesiastical institution, since slaves and freed persons were often given to churches and ...
Stefan Esders
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Medievalista, 2019 This article deals with a copy of a visigothic regnal list, which is found in two manuscripts of Pseudo-Isidore: Montecassino, ms. 1 and Paris, BnF, lat. 1557.
William Trouvé
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The admission of former slaves into churches and monasteries: reaching behind the sources
Early Medieval Europe, Volume 29, Issue 4, Page 586-611, November 2021., 2021 Religious institutions in early medieval Europe were both recipients of former slaves and instigators of manumissions. By drawing on recent work concerning the admission of former slaves into churches and monasteries, the present paper identifies dominant strands in the historiography from Marc Bloch to the present, which are then re‐evaluated in light
Roy Flechner, Janel Fontaine
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Land, freedom and the making of the medieval West [PDF]
, 2006 In the course of the fifth and sixth centuries, barbarian warbands acquired property rights in the former provinces of the Roman west, in a process that established the broad structural characteristics of early medieval society in western Europe: that is
Innes, Matthew
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La pervivencia de la tradición legal visigótica en el reino asturleonés
Mélanges de la Casa de Velázquez, 2011 For decades, historians have pointed to the survival of Visigothic Law in the centuries immediately following the Muslim conquest. Various references from the Astur-Leonés documentation in the Liber Iudicum appear to confirm such continued use of ...
Amancio Isla Frez
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Pope Leo of Bourges, clerical immunity and the early medieval secular
Early Medieval Europe, Volume 29, Issue 1, Page 86-108, February 2021., 2021 This article investigates the early medieval secular through the lens of clerical immunity – that is, the legal exemption of clerics from courts labelled as secular. It focusses on a short text, eventually attributed to Pope Leo, which was written in fifth‐century Gaul to define this immunity.
Charles West
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Slavery and identity in Mozarabic Toledo : 1201-1320 [PDF]
, 1995 L'ocupació musulmana de Toledo va significar la coexistencia, en aquesta ciutat, de col·lectius que professaven religions diferents i entre els quals la tensió era freqüent: mossàrabs, jueus, castellans i colons francesos es convertiren en els grups ...
Ryan, Michael A.
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