{"product_id":"neighbours-and-strangers-local-societies-in-early-medieval-europe-9781526139818","title":"Neighbours and Strangers: Local Societies in","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book explores social cohesion in rural settlements in western Europe from 700–1050, asking to what extent settlements, or districts, constituted units of social organisation. It focuses on the interactions, interconnections and networks of people who lived side by side – neighbours. Drawing evidence from most of the current western European countries, the book plots and interrogates the very different practices of this wide range of regions in a systematically comparative framework. It considers the variety of local responses to the supra-local agents of landlords and rulers and the impact, such as it was, of those agents on the small-scale residential group. It also assesses the impact on local societies of the values, instructions and demands of the wider literate world of Christianity, as delivered by local priests.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e'[…] a valuable “handbook,” enabling young medievalists to shape their research according to an innovative methodology which has succeeded in escaping the confines of the master narratives that long characterized\u003cbr\u003eEuropean medieval studies.'\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSpeculum\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e -- .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e1 Questions to pursue\u003cbr\u003e2 Setting the scene\u003cbr\u003e3 The fabric of local societies: people, land and settlement\u003cbr\u003e4 Making groups: collective action in rural settlements\u003cbr\u003e5 Shepherds, uncles, owners, scribes: priests as neighbours in early medieval local societies\u003cbr\u003e6 Interventions in local societies: lower office holders\u003cbr\u003e7 Interventions and interactions\u003cbr\u003e8 Neighbours, visitors and strangers: searching for the local\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Manchester University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51041001636183,"sku":"9781526139818","price":76.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/neighbours-and-strangers-local-societies-in-early-medieval-europe-9781526139818","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}