Neighbours and Strangers: Local Societies in Early Medieval Europe
English
By (author): Bernhard Zeller Carine van Rhijn Charles West Francesca Tinti Marco Stoffella Miriam Czock Nicolas Schroeder Steffen Patzold Thomas Kohl Wendy Davies
This book explores social cohesion in rural settlements in western Europe from 7001050, 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.
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