Settling the kings' lands: aprisio in Catalonia in perspective
Jonathan Jarrett
Important aspects of social history can sometimes be lost in legalisms. A long debate, recently continued EME, has studied the right aprisio claimed by those who took over wasteland on frontier future Catalonia. This paper argues that previous treatments term have conflated many separate factors and misunderstood what actually was practice. When at ground level it seems that, despite role given to immigrant settlers historians, landholders need not been newcomers, but locals using new rules for otherwise normal land clearances.
Early Medieval Europe