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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. Neighbours and strangers
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. -- .
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. -- .
Using the idea that church buildings are sacred spaces, this study
seeks to examine a central figure of thought in medieval society,
the ecclesia . Using normative, liturgical, and
exegetic-theological sources, the book traces the profound
transformational process that took place in the political and
religious view of society from Late Antiquity to the Early Middle
Ages. The study describes the dynamics that led to the development
of a ecclesiology with a powerful impact on an entire epoch."
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