Governance, locality and legal culture: the rise and fall of the Carolingian advocates of Saint‐Martin of Tours
Fraser McNair
This article examines the office of advocate at abbey Saint‐Martin Tours. It studies what was regionally distinctive about its emergence there in late ninth century and suggests a reason for office’s demise early tenth century. In doing so, it draws out important discursive shifts which were part parcel both setting‐up fading‐away Carolingian ‘reform’, suggesting that changes seen advocatial ones mentality first administrative change only secondarily.
Early Medieval Europe|Humanities Commons CORE (Modern Language Association / Columbia University)