Records and Processes of Dispute Settlement in Early Medieval Societies : Iberia and Beyond

How can dispute records shed light on the study of dispute settlement processes and their social and political underpinnings? This volume addresses this question by investigating the interplay between record-making, disputing process, and the social and political contexts of conflicts. The authors make use of exceptionally rich charter materials from the Iberian Peninsula, Italy, and Scandinavia, including different types of texts directly and indirectly related to conflicts, in order to contribute to a comparative survey of early medieval dispute records and to a better understanding of the interplay between judicial and other less formal modes of conflict resolution. Contributors are Isabel Alfonso, José M. Andrade, François Bougard, Warren C. Brown, Wendy Davies, Julio Escalona, Kim Esmark, Adam J. Kosto, Juan José Larrea, André Evangelista Marques, Josep M. Salrach, Igor Santos Salazar, and Francesca Tinti. ‎Contents 6 ‎Acknowledgments 8 ‎Illustrations 10 ‎Notes on Contributors 12 ‎Introduction (Alfonso, Andrade and Marques) 16 ‎Part 1. Surveying the Corpus of Iberian Dispute Records, 800–1100 50 ‎Chapter 1. Documentary Production and Dispute Records in Galicia before the Year 1100 (Andrade) 52 ‎Chapter 2. Documentary Production and Dispute Records in León before the Year 1100 (Alfonso) 82 ‎Chapter 3. Documentary Production and Dispute Records in Castile before the Year 1100 (Alfonso) 116 ‎Chapter 4. Documentary Production and Dispute Records in Navarre and Aragon before the Year 1100 (Alfonso) 144 ‎Chapter 5. Documentary Production and Dispute Records in Catalonia before the Year 1100 (Salrach) 168 ‎Chapter 6. From Written Sources to Digital Tools: The PRJ Database of Iberian Judicial Records in Context (Tinti) 196 ‎Part 2. Recording Disputes: The Textual Construction of Judicial Process 210 ‎Chapter 7. Disputing and Dispute Records in the Formulae Visigothicae (Brown) 212 ‎Chapter 8. Creating Records of Judicial Disputes in Northern Iberia before the Year 1000 (Davies) 237 ‎Chapter 9. Documentary and Procedural Engineering of Judicial Records in Italy (Ninth-Eleventh Centuries) (Bougard) 265 ‎Chapter 10. Cum suo scripto: Lay Deperdita and Ecclesiastical Memory in Dispute Records from Castile-Álava and Tuscany (Ninth-Tenth Centuries) (Santos Salazar) 295 ‎Part 3. Framing Disputes: Judicial Authorities and Social Order 324 ‎Chapter 11. Versatile Participants in Medieval Judicial Processes: Catalonia, 900–1100 (Kosto) 326 ‎Chapter 12. Lines Traced on Mountains: Delimitations and Territorial Disputes in the Western Pyrenees between the Ninth and Eleventh Centuries (Larrea) 353 ‎Chapter 13. One Monk, One Donkey, One Dead Man: Contexts for a Homicide in a Tenth-Century Sahagún Charter (Escalona) 379 ‎Chapter 14. Double Records: Officializing Dispute Settlement in Twelfth-Century Denmark (Esmark) 402 ‎Index 426