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).

• AcknowledgmentsList of IllustrationsNotes on ContributorsIntroductionIsabel Alfonso, José Andrade and André Evangelista MarquesPart 1 Surveying the Corpus of Iberian Dispute Records, 800–11001 Documentary Production and Dispute Records in Galicia before the Year 1100José M. Andrade2 Documentary Production and Dispute Records in León before the Year 1100Isabel Alfonso3 Documentary Production and Dispute Records in Castile before the Year 1100Isabel Alfonso4 Documentary Production and Dispute Records in Navarre and Aragon before the Year 1100Isabel Alfonso5 Documentary Production and Dispute Records in Catalonia before the Year 1100Josep M. Salrach6 From Written Sources to Digital Tools: The PRJ Database of Iberian Judicial Records in ContextFrancesca TintiPart 2 Recording Disputes: The Textual Construction of Judicial Process7 Disputing and Dispute Records in the Formulae VisigothicaeWarren C. Brown8 Creating Records of Judicial Disputes in Northern Iberia before the Year 1000Wendy Davies9 Documentary and Procedural Engineering of Judicial Records in Italy (Ninth-Eleventh Centuries)François Bougard10 Cum suo scripto: Lay Deperdita and Ecclesiastical Memory in Dispute Records from Castile-Álava and Tuscany (Ninth-Tenth Centuries)Igor Santos SalazarPart 3 Framing Disputes: Judicial Authorities and Social Order11 Versatile Participants in Medieval Judicial Processes: Catalonia, 900–1100Adam J. Kosto12 Lines Traced on Mountains: Delimitations and Territorial Disputes in the Western Pyrenees between the Ninth and Eleventh CenturiesJuan José Larrea13 One Monk, One Donkey, One Dead Man: Contexts for a Homicide in a Tenth-Century Sahagún CharterJulio Escalona14 Double Records: Officializing Dispute Settlement in Twelfth-Century DenmarkKim EsmarkIndex