‘Placita’ and the settlement of disputes in later Merovingian Francia
Paul Fouracre|Wendy Davies
Narrative sources for the study of later Merovingian history are sparse and notoriously difficult to use. The evidence provided by royal charters is therefore invaluable, although traditionally they have been studied as much their form content. Here, always, motive force behind production, transmission preservation all kinds was conservation property, it establishment or description property ownership in charter which illuminates underlying human activity. When there a formal dispute over recorded process establishing becomes far more complex may reveal us vivid detailed impression contemporary In case settlement very complexity records suggests that be most revealing. On other hand, lie recording document rather than substance dispute. This problem, relationship record reality settlement, will continuing theme present paper.
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