Records and Processes of Dispute Settlement in Early Medieval Societies

Isabel Alfonso is Investigadora Científica (retired) at the Instituto de Historia – CSIC. She has published widely on different aspects of medieval rural societies and has pioneered the use of political and legal anthropology in the study of medieval Iberian history. Her latest project made available online the corpus of Iberian dispute records before 1100 (http://prj.csic.es/). José M. Andrade is Professor of Medieval History at the University of Santiago de Compostela. He has published widely on monastic history and on several aspects of medieval Galician history. His books include El monacato benedictino y la sociedad de la Galicia medieval (siglos X al XIII) (A Coruña, 1997). André Evangelista Marques is an independent scholar, member of the Institute for Medieval Studies at NOVA University Lisbon. He specialises in the social and material history of early to high medieval Portugal. His books include Da representação documental à materialidade do espaço. Território da diocese de Braga (séculos IX-XI) (Porto, 2014).

Acknowledgments

List of Illustrations

Notes on Contributors



Introduction

 Isabel Alfonso, José Andrade and André Evangelista Marques



Part 1 Surveying the Corpus of Iberian Dispute Records, 800–1100



1 Documentary Production and Dispute Records in Galicia before the Year 1100

 José M. Andrade



2 Documentary Production and Dispute Records in León before the Year 1100

 Isabel Alfonso



3 Documentary Production and Dispute Records in Castile before the Year 1100

 Isabel Alfonso



4 Documentary Production and Dispute Records in Navarre and Aragon before the Year 1100

 Isabel Alfonso



5 Documentary Production and Dispute Records in Catalonia before the Year 1100

 Josep M. Salrach



6 From Written Sources to Digital Tools: The PRJ Database of Iberian Judicial Records in Context

 Francesca Tinti



Part 2 Recording Disputes: The Textual Construction of Judicial Process



7 Disputing and Dispute Records in the Formulae Visigothicae

 Warren C. Brown



8 Creating Records of Judicial Disputes in Northern Iberia before the Year 1000

 Wendy Davies



9 Documentary and Procedural Engineering of Judicial Records in Italy (Ninth-Eleventh Centuries)

 François Bougard



10 Cum suo scripto: Lay Deperdita and Ecclesiastical Memory in Dispute Records from Castile-Álava and Tuscany (Ninth-Tenth Centuries)

 Igor Santos Salazar



Part 3 Framing Disputes: Judicial Authorities and Social Order



11 Versatile Participants in Medieval Judicial Processes: Catalonia, 900–1100

 Adam J. Kosto



12 Lines Traced on Mountains: Delimitations and Territorial Disputes in the Western Pyrenees between the Ninth and Eleventh Centuries

 Juan José Larrea



13 One Monk, One Donkey, One Dead Man: Contexts for a Homicide in a Tenth-Century Sahagún Charter

 Julio Escalona



14 Double Records: Officializing Dispute Settlement in Twelfth-Century Denmark

 Kim Esmark



Index