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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      July 2009
      April 2000
      ISBN:
      9780511496349
      9780521594554
      9780521027168
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511496349
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.665kg, 336 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.512kg, 336 Pages
      • Subjects:
      British History 1066-1450, Area Studies, History, European Studies, European History 450-1000
      Series:
      Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series (47)
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    Subjects:
    British History 1066-1450, Area Studies, History, European Studies, European History 450-1000
    Series:
    Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series (47)
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    This book, first published in 2000, is a pioneering study of politics and society in the early Middle Ages. Whereas it is widely believed that the source materials for early medieval Europe are too sparse to allow sustained study of the workings of social and political relationships on the ground, this book focuses on a uniquely well-documented area to investigate the basis of power. Topics covered include the foundation of monasteries, their relationship with the laity, and their role as social centres; the significance of urbanism; the control of land, the development of property rights and the organization of states; community, kinship and lordship; justice and dispute settlement; the uses of the written word; violence and the feud; and the development of political structures from the Roman empire to the high Middle Ages.

    Awards

    Winner of the Royal Historical Society's Gladstone Memorial Prize (2000)

    Reviews

    ‘… what … makes his work outstanding is his grasp of the big picture, and his preparedness to address and resolve questions of structure and theory. Seldom can a young scholar’s first book be greeted with superlatives. This is such a book.’

    Source: Journal of Ecclesiastical History

    ’It is highly sophisticated … Specialists will applaud the treatments of land-holding, charter terminology and its implications, and the letters of Einhard.’

    Source: Early Medieval Europe

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