Religious houses, violence, and the limits of political consensus in early medieval León (NW Iberia)
This paper explores violence against religious houses as an indicator of the limits of political negotiation and consensus building in early medieval polities. It analyses records of attacks against religious houses and clerics from León (NW Iberia) that escape traditional interpretations of violenc...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2020 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) |
| Repositorio: | DIGITAL.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:digital.csic.es:10261/226603 |
| Acceso en línea: | http://hdl.handle.net/10261/226603 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Middle Ages 10th Century Local societies Social inequalities Violence Churches http://metadata.un.org/sdg/10 Reduce inequality within and among countries |
| Sumario: | This paper explores violence against religious houses as an indicator of the limits of political negotiation and consensus building in early medieval polities. It analyses records of attacks against religious houses and clerics from León (NW Iberia) that escape traditional interpretations of violence as a tool in the negotiation of social relations, and construes the events as an expression of local social cleavages. In so doing, it provides a guideline for probing similar records in ways that might illuminate aspects of social relations and dynamics otherwise obscured by the dominant themes of the documentary sources from this period. |
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