Neighbours and strangers
local societies in early medieval Europe
- ISBN: 9781526163899
- Editorial: Manchester University Press
- Fecha de la edición: 2022
- Lugar de la edición: Manchester. Reino Unido
- Colección: Manchester Medieval Studies
- Encuadernación: Rústica
- Medidas: 22 cm
- Nº Pág.: 304
- Idiomas: Inglés
This book explores social cohesion in rural settlements in western Europe from 700-1050, asking to what extent settlements, or districts, constituted units of social organisation. It focuses on the interactions, interconnections and networks of people who lived side by side - neighbours. Drawing evidence from most of the current western European countries, the book plots and interrogates the very different practices of this wide range of regions in a systematically comparative framework. Neighbours and strangers considers the variety of local responses to the supra-local agents of landlords and rulers and the impact, such as it was, of those agents on the small-scale residential group. It also assesses the impact on local societies of the values, instructions and demands of the wider literate world of Christianity, as delivered by local priests.
