Monastic archives and the law: legal strategies at Farfa and Monte Amiata at the turn of the millennium.
This article investigates two controversies that reveal the deeply intertwined nature of legal strategies and archival practices at the monasteries of Farfa and Monte Amiata around the turn of the millennium. It argues that the protagonists of these cases, abbots knowledgeable in law and the history...
| Published in: | Early Medieval Europe Vol. 29; no. 3; pp. 331 - 366 |
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