304 Pages
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Routledge
304 Pages
by
Routledge
304 Pages
by
Routledge
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Although it has a rich historiography, and from the late ninth century is rich in textual evidence, northern Iberia has barely featured in the great debates of early medieval European history of recent generations. Lying beyond the Frankish world, in a peninsula more than half controlled by Muslims, Spanish and Portuguese experience has seemed irrelevant to the Carolingian Empire and the... Read more
Prologue / Orientation / Part I The Texts: The structure of dispute records / Appendix / Material questions / Formulaic writing / The language of dispute texts / Coda / Appendix / Part II Implications: Roles / Power / Local responses / A view on northern Iberia in the European context / Where is justice? / Bibliography / Indexes.
Biography
Wendy Davies, FBA, is Professor Emerita of History at University College London, UK
