Beyond the monastery walls: lay men and women in early medieval legal formularies
"Our understanding of life in the early Middle Ages is dominated by Christian churches and monasteries. It is their records and libraries which have survived the centuries, to tell us how the clerics, monks, and nuns who lived and worked within their walls experienced the world around them. We...
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| Format: | Electronic/Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Fernleihe: | Fernleihe für die Fachinformationsdienste |
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Cambridge, United Kingdom New York, NY, USA Port Melbourne, VIC, Australia New Delhi, India Singapore
Cambridge University Press
2023
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| In: | Year: 2023 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Bibliothèque Nationale de France
/ Kloster Flavigny-sur-Ozerain
/ Diplomatics
/ Carolingians
/ Layman
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| Further subjects: | B
Middle Ages
Historiography
B Middle Ages Sources B Archives History 500-1500 B Europe Social conditions To 1492 Sources B Civilization, Medieval Sources B Europe History 476-1492 Sources |
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Presumably Free Access Volltext (doi) |
| Summary: | "Our understanding of life in the early Middle Ages is dominated by Christian churches and monasteries. It is their records and libraries which have survived the centuries, to tell us how the clerics, monks, and nuns who lived and worked within their walls experienced the world around them. We thus see the lay inhabitants of that wider world mostly when they are interacting with the clergy. However, a few sources let us explore lay life in this period more broadly. Beyond the Monastery Walls exploits perhaps the richest of these: manuscript books containing formulas, or models, for documents that do not otherwise survive. Through these books, Warren C. Brown explores the concerns and behavior of lay men and women in this period on their own terms, and casts fresh light on a part of the medieval world that is usually hidden from view. In the process, he shows how early medievalists are winning fresh information from our sources by looking at them in new ways"-- |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: | 1108479588 |
| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/9781108855426 |