How can dispute records shed light on the study of dispute settlement processes and their social and political underpinnings? This volume addresses this questio

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

This is a collection of original essays on the settlement of disputes in the early middle ages, a subject of central importance for social and political history

Most scholarship in English on the political and social order of early medieval Europe concentrates on the Western Frankish regions. Warren Brown shifts the foc

This book, first published in 2000, is a pioneering study of politics and society in the early Middle Ages. Whereas it is widely believed that the source materi