Making Early Medieval Societies : Conflict and Belonging in the Latin West, 300-1200 (Hardcover)

Introduction: making early medieval societies Conrad Leyser; 1. Property, power, and conflict: rethinking the Constantinian revolution Kate Cooper; 2. Playing with fire: conflicting bishops in late Roman Spain and Gaul David Natal and Jamie Wood; 3. After Rome, before Francia: religion, ethnicity, and identity politics in Gregory of Tours' Ten Books of Histories Helmut Reimitz; 4. 'To mistake gold for wealth': the Venerable Bede and the fate of Northumbria Martin J. Ryan; 5. The incidence of rebellion in the early medieval West Paul Fouracre; 6. Disputes and documents in early medieval Italy Marios Costambeys; 7. Divorce and remarriage between late antiquity and the early Middle Ages: canon law and conflict resolution Riccardo Bof and Conrad Leyser; 8. The memory of Gregory the Great and the making of Latin Europe, 600?1000 Conrad Leyser; 9. The weight of opinion: religion and the people of Europe from the tenth to the twelfth century R. I. Moore; 10. 'The peace in the feud' revisited: feuds in the peace in medieval European feuds Stephen D. White; Bibliography; Index.