To Be the Neighbor of Saint Peter: The Social Meaning of Cluny's Property, 909-1049
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| Rating | : | 4.67 (648 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 080142206X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 280 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-09-25 |
| Language | : | English |
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Bouchard, University of Akron"For over a generation, the analytical techniques developed by Charles-Edmond Perrin and Georges Duby have enriched medieval social history. "The import of the title is that Cluny's property lay in a neighborhood, that is, an area with little, if any, central authority. In To Be the Neighbor of Saint Peter, Barbara H. She also seeks to bring to bear the methods and findings of social history and anthropology. Her command of the scholarly literature is likewise very impressive. R
Barbara H. Rosenwein is Professor of History at Loyola University, Chicago. She is the author of Negotiating Space: Power, Restraint, and Privileges of Immunity in Early Medieval Europe, editor of Anger’s Past: The Social Uses of an Emotion in the Middle Ages, and coeditor of Monks and Nuns, Saints and Outcasts: Religion in Medieval Society, all from Cornell.
Rosenwein here reassesses the significance of property in the tenth and eleventh centuries, a period of transition from the Carolingian empire to the regional monarchies of the High Middle Ages. Its charters and cartularies constitute perhaps the single richest collection of information on property for the period 909–1049. Barbara H. Donations, Rosenwein shows, were largely the work of neighbors, and they set up and affirmed relationships with Saint Peter, to whom Cluny was dedicated.Cluny was an eminent religious institution and served as a model for other monasteries. In To Be the Neighbor of Saint Peter she explores in rich detail the question of monastic donations, illuminating the human mo
A Customer said Excellent Legal-Anthropological History. Originally conceived as a computer-assisted mapping of Cluny's property, Rosenwein's book evolved into an examination of social relationships created by this French monastery's land transactions. The author wrote this work after analyzing thousands of charters produced during the years AD 909-10Excellent Legal-Anthropological History A Customer Originally conceived as a computer-assisted mapping of Cluny's property, Rosenwein's book evolved into an examination of social relationships created by this French monastery's land transactions. The author wrote this work after analyzing thousands of charters produced during the years AD 909-1049. In it, Rosenwein takes her methodological inspiration from the discipline of anthropology and teases meaning out of a mountain of dry legal documents in the form of various deeds, grants and quitclaims. This study sheds new light on the meaning of property in the tenth and eleventh centuries. Rosenwe. 9. In it, Rosenwein takes her methodological inspiration from the discipline of anthropology and teases meaning out of a mountain of dry legal documents in the form of various deeds, grants and quitclaims. This study sheds new light on the meaning of property in the tenth and eleventh centuries. Rosenwe