Rituales, derechos y relaciones: algunas donaciones y su interpretación en el cartulario de Fulda, c 827
Matthew Innes
This article analyses a cluster of legal documents concerning newly cleared woodland between the river Fulda and its minor tributary Haune, copied into earliest cartulary which was completed in 828. It elucidates complex interactions local landholders varying status, monks their claims to spiritual patronage tenurial right, public world ritual county meetings were central exercise power Carolingian world. argues that rituals recorded charters simultaneously attempts define regulate relationships different social actors (individuals, groups institutions) as well transfer rights over property. Historians need pay particular care mechanisms transmission, archival record wa s carefully constructed meet immediate needs, it may obscure extent embedded them matters interpretation. As raising epistemological methodological questions about nature charter evidence, this discussion also sheds light on land clearances, relationship internal colonisation crystallisation ecclesiastical political structures under rule, topics parallel concerns much recent work early medieval Iberia. Finally, is argued if sare read not passive records abstract but active interpret relations, they can shed some identities interests landowners relatively modest means, place at historiographial centre stage.
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