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Acts of Giving - Individual, Community, and Church in Tenth-Century Christian Spain (Hardcover, New)
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Acts of Giving - Individual, Community, and Church in Tenth-Century Christian Spain (Hardcover, New)
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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.
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