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.

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).