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Shifting Landmarks : Property, Proof, and Dispute in Catalonia around the Year 1000 / / Jeffrey A. Bowman



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Autore: Bowman Jeffrey A (Jeffrey Alan), <1966-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Shifting Landmarks : Property, Proof, and Dispute in Catalonia around the Year 1000 / / Jeffrey A. Bowman Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Ithaca : , : Cornell University Press, , 2004
Baltimore, Md. : , : Project MUSE, , 2021
©2004
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xv, 279 p. ) : ill., maps ;
Disciplina: 340.5/5
Soggetto topico: Law, Politics & Government
Law - Non-U.S
Law - Europe, except U.K
Property
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS - Real Estate - General
Property - Spain - Catalonia - History - To 1500
Law, Medieval - Methodology
Soggetto geografico: Spain Catalonia
Soggetto genere / forma: History
Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-274) and index.
Nota di contenuto: Sicut lex edocet -- Do neo-Romans curse? -- Diligite iustitiam qui iudicatis terram -- Courts and the administration of justice -- Cold cauldrons and the smoldering hand -- Fighting with written records -- Community, memory, and proof -- Winning, losing, and resisting -- Justice and violence in medieval Europe.
Sommario/riassunto: In a major contribution to the debate among medievalists about the nature of social and political change in Europe around the turn of the millennium, Jeffrey A. Bowman explores how people contended over property during the tenth and eleventh centuries in the province of Narbonne. He examines the system of courts and judges that weighed property disputes and shows how disputants and judges gradually adapted, modified, and reshaped legal traditions. The region (which comprised Catalonia and parts of Mediterranean France) possessed a distinctive legal culture, characterized by the prominent role of professional judges, a high level of procedural sophistication, and an intense attachment to written law, particularly the Visigothic Code. At the same time, disputants relied on a range of strategies (including custom, curses, and judicial ordeals) to resolve conflicts. Chronic tensions stemmed from conflicting understandings of property rights rather than from pervasive violence; the changes Bowman tracks are less signs of a world convulsed in struggle than of a world coursing with vitality. In Shifting Landmarks, property disputes serve as a bridge between the author's inquiry into learned ideas about justice, land, and the law and his close examination of the rough-and-tumble practice of daily life. Throughout, Bowman finds intimate connections among ink and parchment, sweat and earth.
Altri titoli varianti: Property, proof, and dispute in Catalonia around the year 1000
Titolo autorizzato: Shifting Landmarks  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-5017-2104-6
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910817197503321
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