This work concerns Catalonia, the northeastern part of the Iberian peninsula, during the Middle Ages. Centred on the great port city of Barcelona, Catalonia formed the richest and most culturally advanced part of what became the kingdom of Aragon, and extended its commercial and political power throughout the Mediterranean. It emphasizes two themes in particular: the role of the Catalan church in its society, and the condition of the peasantry, especially with respect to serfdom. The first eight articles discuss questions ...
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This work concerns Catalonia, the northeastern part of the Iberian peninsula, during the Middle Ages. Centred on the great port city of Barcelona, Catalonia formed the richest and most culturally advanced part of what became the kingdom of Aragon, and extended its commercial and political power throughout the Mediterranean. It emphasizes two themes in particular: the role of the Catalan church in its society, and the condition of the peasantry, especially with respect to serfdom. The first eight articles discuss questions of episcopal power in relation to monasteries, urban society and the state. The remaining articles consider the reasons for peasant servitude in a region which had previously enjoyed a free system of land tenure. The essays aim to compare the experience of Catalonia with the more widely-studied realms of northern Europe and with the other Spanish kingdoms.
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Add this copy of Church, Law and Society in Catalonia, 900-1500 to cart. $67.00, very good condition, Sold by Windows Booksellers rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Eugene, OR, UNITED STATES, published 1994 by Variorum Reprints.
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Very Good with no dust jacket. 0860784142. KB55...[xii, 270] pp. (per publisher's advice, articles are numbered individually). Index. Frontis plate of Freedman. Map. Octavo. Dark blue/gray cloth covers with gilt to front cover and spine. Minimal shelf wear, corners very slightly toed in. Interior clean and unmarked. "The articles in this collected...are devoted to the ecclesiastical and social history of medieval Catalonia. The first 8 consider aspects of the lordship of the Church, from its theoretical basis in Visigothic and Carlingian practice to the disputes between townsmen and the cathedral of Vic..." Most of the articles are in English, a few in French.; 8vo 8"-9" tall; 270 pages.
