Law, laity and solidarities: Essays in honour of Susan Reynolds

Law, laity and solidarities: Essays in honour of Susan Reynolds
ISBN-10
1526148285
ISBN-13
9781526148285
Category
History
Pages
288
Language
English
Published
2020-01-03
Publisher
Manchester University Press
Authors
Pauline Stafford, Janet L. Nelson, Jane Martindale

Description

The primary focus of this collection by leading medieval historians is the laity, in particular the ideas and ideals of lay people. The contributors explore lay attitudes as expressed in legal cases, charters, chronicles and collective activities. Highlights the centrality of kinship, whilst stressing its limitations as an all purpose social bond. Ranges chronologically and geographically from the seventh century to the eve of the Reformation, from Western Britain to papal and urban Italy, from Carolingian dynastic politics to the decline of medieval pilgrimage in the sixteenth century, and from the courts of twelfth-century France to the fifteenth-century wards of London.

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