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La transcription du droit de la famille et de la propriété, du droit romain à la loi wisigothique
The proximity of laws produced under Visigothic rule to Roman law does not make them essentially different from those of other barbarian kingdoms. Even although there is a considerable degree of apparent continuity, the elements of Roman Law included in ...
Sylvie Joye
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El objetivo de nuestro artículo es alcanzar un mayor y mejor conocimiento, del concepto de la dote matrimonial en el Reino de Castilla, a finales de la Edad Media y en los albores de la Edad Moderna.
Teresa Sánchez Collada
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Lights, power and the moral economy of early medieval Europe
By the beginning of the early Middle Ages the convention that each church should have a light burning at all times on the altar was strongly established. This paper examines how elites promulgated this idea and benefitted from their ability to furnish lighting material (oil and wax) when this was becoming scarce and expensive.
Paul Fouracre
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La recusatio iudicis suspecti en Derecho Romano y sus vaivenes históricos [PDF]
The recusatio iudicis suspecti constitutes a controversial figure, whose imprecise edges are not always well delimited. This work gets close to its Roman configuration,establishing some of its essential characteristics, which will doubtlessly constitute ...
Ana Alemán Monreal
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Restauration ou bouleversement ?
After the turbulence caused by the Islamic occupation, the restoration of the so-called primate power of the former Visigothic metropolis of Toledo on October 15, 1088 by Pope Urban II had important legal and political consequences thus destabilising the
Ludwig Vones
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The ecclesiastical fight against storm‐makers in the Latin west
This paper studies the strategies used by the Church to fight against the storm‐makers. These figures were said to cause the storms that ruined crops, and during Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages in the Visigothic and Frankish kingdoms were subject to punishment and constraints.
Juan Antonio Jiménez Sánchez
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The date and context of the Astronomer's Life of Louis the Pious
The Astronomer's Life of the emperor Louis the Pious (814–40) is a canonical source for scholars of Frankish history. It sits at the centre of recent debates about the nature and tone of Carolingian political discourse, and about the crisis of the empire in the 830s.
Simon MacLean
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Whole genome sequencing of Galicians (GALOMICS; 17.2 M variants) reveals a genetic landscape consistent with broader Iberian patterns, characterized by only five clusters. Phylogenetic analyses indicate recent divergence and mild regional inbreeding.
Jacobo Pardo‐Seco +7 more
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Amateur justice in Carolingian Bavaria
This paper examines judges and judgement in Bavarian dispute charters from the first decades of the ninth century. It argues that justice in Carolingian Bavaria was an amateur affair, in which of primary importance was the ability to create a stable consensus around an outcome. Accordingly, distinctions between judges and other participants in judicial
Amos Bronner
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Between theft and treason: latrocinium in Carolingian capitularies
Suppressing robbery, latrocinium, was a priority for Charlemagne, Louis the Pious, Charles the Bald, and Louis II at key political moments. Latrones were conceptualized as ordinary thieves, as highway robbers, and as threats to peace and security. In capitularies, latrocinium was implicitly and explicitly associated with infidelity.
James R. Burns
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