Neighbours and Strangers: Local Societies in Early Medieval Europe

By Bernhard Zeller, Charles West, Francesca Tinti

Book Overview

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. It 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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1526139812
• ISBN13: 9781526139818
• Release Date: March 2020
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.11 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"