The Village World of Early Medieval Northern Spain: Local Community and the Land Market, by Robert Portass
Igor Santos Salazar
In this volume, Robert Portass studies the social articulation of two ‘small Iberian worlds’. By comparing valley Liébana and Terra de Celanova (respectively in modern-day Cantabria Galicia) author offers a fresh perspective on everyday life rural communities Christian Spain between eighth eleventh centuries. scrutinises numerous documents preserved cartularies St Martin Turieno, Piasca Celanova, among others, to discuss existing structures both territories, analysing lay people’s economic interests those villages, through dynamics ecclesiastical proprietorial expansion. Buying, selling donating are presented book as an essential framework for interpreting understanding complexity which characterised societies. Not only did these processes shape transactions exchanges, but they also shaped interactions, providing useful lens explores working politics (particularly justice) different spaces located within borders Asturian kingdom.
The English Historical Review