Rural society in Carolingian Europe
Chris Wickham
In the Carolingian period, from 750 or so onwards, people began, for first time in European history, to see rural society more directly. This chapter provides an understanding of how social relationships actually worked practice, on ground. It talks about four areas as brief examples local societies, and discusses what their similarities differences might tell us vast range small-scale realities that made up Europe a whole. The are two small Catalan counties, Urgell Pallars; villages north Breton monastery Redon; Dienheim middle Rhine, just upstream Mainz; Cologno Monzese, settlement east Milan: from, respectively, marginal frontier area, prosperous marchland, core area Frankish political power, urbanised heartland Lombard-Carolingian kingdom Italy.
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