Making agreements in medieval Catalonia : power, order, and the written word, 1000-1200 / Adam J. Kosto.
2001
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Author
Title
Making agreements in medieval Catalonia : power, order, and the written word, 1000-1200 / Adam J. Kosto.
Published
Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2001.
Call Number
HN590.C36 K67 2001
Former Call Number
M.Sp 923.43C K848 2001
ISBN
0521792398
Description
xix, 366 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.
System Control No.
(OCoLC)44750784
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 318-345) and indexes.
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Table of Contents
List of figures
List of tables
Acknowledgments
Note on citations, dates, and names
List of abbreviations
Map
Introduction
1
1
The First Convenientia: Social and Documentary Change Around the Year 1000
26
The documentary context
32
Early Catalan convenientiae, c. 1021-50
64
Convenientiae and the "crisis" of Catalan society
74
2
Making Agreements
78
Castle tenure and military service
81
Structures of power in convenientiae
85
Treaties
97
Dispute settlement
101
Exploiting the land
107
Family settlements
113
Promises
118
3
Keeping Agreements
121
Penalty clauses
121
Sureties
124
Procedure
134
Case studies: Pallars and Empuries/Rossello
138
Oaths
143
4
Foundations (The Eleventh Century)
158
Counts
160
Lay aristocracy
175
Episcopal castles
177
Monastic military lordship
212
5
Fortunes (The Twelfth Century)
219
Renewal
219
Conflict
242
Change
255
5
Writing and Power
268
Administration
272
The Usatges de Barcelona
278
The Liber feudorum maior
281
The end of the convenientia
285
Table of published documents
295
Works cited
315
Index of names
346
Subject index
362