Power in Wales in the early middle ages was inextricably tied to political authority. This book analyzes the nature of that power and its relationships, both in theory and in practice. Confronting challenging questions relating to definitions and consequences of military control, alien settlement, land ownership, and political domination, Davies analyzes the impact and nature of English, Irish, and Viking contacts with the Welsh, and assesses their significance for the long-term development of Wales.

Patterns of Power in Early Wales: O'Donnell Lectures delivered in the University of Oxford, 1983

History

Davies, Wendy

Europe

Clarendon Press

This volume covers the history of the British Isles from the Vikings to the Norman conquest. Seven chapters contributed by an international team of leading historians cover key themes of this period such as monarchies and other political structures, economic developments, the Christianization of society, and relationships between Britain, Ireland, and the Mediterranean civilizations to the south. The text also offers a number of challenges to accepted orthodoxies about the nature and development of the separate areas of early medieval Britain.

From the Vikings to the Normans 800-1100 (Short Oxford History of the British

Oxford University Press

This readable and authoritative volume covers the history of the British Isles from the Vikings to the Norman conquest. Seven chapters contributed by an international team of leading historians cover key themes of this period such as monarchies and other political structures, economic developments, the christianization of society, and relationships between Britain, Ireland, and the Mediterranean civilizations to the south.

From the Vikings to the Normans (Short Oxford History of the British Isles)

Gardens in Northern Iberia in the Early Middle Ages: Practice, Product, and Sale

Historical Study & Educational Resources

Acts of Giving examines the issues surrounding donation --the giving of property, usually landed property--in northern "Christian" Spain in the tenth century, when written texts became very plentiful, allowing us to glimpse the working of local society. Wendy Davies explores who gives and who receives; what is given; reasons for giving; and the place of giving within the complex of social and economic relationships in society as a whole. People gave land for all kinds of reasons - because they were forced to do so, to meet debts or pay fines; because they wanted to gain material benefits in life, or to secure support in the short term or in old age. Giving pro anima, for the sake of the soul, was relatively limited; and gifts were made to lay persons as well as to the church. Family interests were strongly sustained across the tenth century and did not dwindle; family land was split and re-assembled, not fragmented. The gender and status of donors are key themes, along with commemoration: more men than women took steps to memorialize, in contrast to some parts of western Europe, and more aristocrats than peasants, which is less of a contrast. Donation as a type of transaction is also examined, as well as the insights into status afforded by the language and form of the records. Buying and selling, giving and receiving continued in the tenth-century as it had for centuries. However this period saw the volume of peasant donation to the church increasing enormously. It was this which set the conditions for substantial social and economic change.

Acts of Giving: Individual, Community, and Church in Tenth-Century Christian Spain

A collection of papers in English by one of the foremost historians of the social and economic structure of &#8203;medieval rural communities, who here examines local societies in rural northern Spain and Portugal in the early middle ages. Principal themes are scribal practice and the analysis of charter texts; gift, sale and wealth; justice and judicial procedures. Always with a concern for personal relationships and interactions, for mobility, for decision-making &#8203;and for practice, a sense of land and landscape runs throughout. Spanish and Portuguese experience has seemed irrelevant to the great debates of early medieval European history that occupy historians. But Spain and Portugal shared the late Roman heritage which influenced much of western Europe in the early middle ages and by the tenth century records and practice in Christian Iberia still shared features with the Carolingian world. This book offers a substantial corpus of Iberian evidence to set beside Frankish, Italian, English and Scandinavian material and thereby makes it possible for Northern Iberia to play a part in the&#8203;se great debates of medieval European history.

Christian Spain and Portugal in the Early Middle Ages: Texts and Societies (Variorum Collected Studies)

Routledge

Windows on Justice in Northern Iberia, 800–1000

Small Worlds: The Village Community in Early Medieval Brittany

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Univ. Of California Pr.

Hardcover, green cloth in green dust jacket. DJ is sunned, stubbed at head of spine, with price sticker on rear panel. Fine. ISBN: 0520064836

Small worlds: The village community in early medieval Brittany

Gerald Duckworth & Co.

Wales in the Early Middle Ages

Humanities Pr

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