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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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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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A modo de conclusiones: el Liber Iudiciorum y la aplicación del Derecho en los siglos vi a xi
Mélanges de la Casa de Velázquez, 2011 This paper examines the application of law between the 6th and the 12th centuries and seeks to determine the extent to which Roman Law was applied among the Goths and the extent of the survival of traditional customary law. It also looks at the causes of
Javier Alvarado Planas
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Late Roman Law and the Quranic Punishments for Adultery
, 2022 The Muslim World, Volume 112, Issue 2, Page 207-224, Spring 2022.
Juan Cole
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La transcription du droit de la famille et de la propriété, du droit romain à la loi wisigothique
Mélanges de la Casa de Velázquez, 2011 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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Espacio, Tiempo y Forma. Serie III, Historia Medieval, 2016 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
Early Medieval Europe, Volume 28, Issue 3, Page 367-387, August 2020., 2020 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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The Martyrs of Córdoba: Debates around a curious case of medieval martyrdom
History Compass, Volume 18, Issue 1, January 2020., 2020 Abstract Historians have long been fascinated by the almost 50 Christians who were sentenced to death by the Islamic authorities in mid‐ninth century Córdoba, in most cases for wilfully and publicly blaspheming against the Prophet. Since the single manuscript account describing the lives and actions of the so‐called martyrs of Córdoba was ‘rediscovered’
Kati Ihnat
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Restauration ou bouleversement ?
Mélanges de la Casa de Velázquez, 2019 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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