Ideas and Solidarities of the Medieval Laity

England and Western Europe

Susan Reynolds (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

264 Seiten

2022
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-34041-8 (ISBN)

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This book contains essays written over the past 25 years about medieval urban communities and about the loyalties and beliefs of medieval lay people in general. Most writing about medieval religious, political, legal, and social ideas starts from treatises written by academics and assumes that ideas trickled down from the clergy to the laity. Susan Reynolds, whether writing about the struggles for liberty of small English towns, the national solidarities of the Anglo-Saxons, or the capacity of medieval peasants to formulate their own attitudes to religion, rejects this assumption. She suggests that the medieval laity had ideas of their own that deserve to be taken seriously.

Susan Reynolds

Contents: Social mentalities and the case of medieval scepticism; Medieval origines gentium and the community of the realm; What do we mean by ’Anglo-Saxon’ and ’Anglo-Saxons’?; Eadric Silvaticus and the English resistance; Magna Carta 1297 and the legal use of literacy; The history of the idea of incorporation or legal personality: a case of fallacious teleology; English towns of the 11th century in a European context; Towns in Domesday Book; The rulers of London in the 12th century; The farm and taxation of London, 1154-1216; Decline and decay in late medieval towns: a look at some of the concepts and arguments; The forged charters of Barnstaple; 1483: Gloucester and town government in the middle ages; Medieval urban history and the history of political thought; The writing of medieval urban history in England; Space and time in English medieval towns; Index.

Erscheinungsdatum	01.06.2022
Reihe/Serie	Variorum Collected Studies
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	150 x 224 mm
Gewicht	300 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Mittelalter
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften
ISBN-10	1-032-34041-X / 103234041X
ISBN-13	978-1-032-34041-8 / 9781032340418
Zustand	Neuware