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Author Davies, Wendy, 1942-

Title Acts of giving : individual, community, and church in tenth-century Christian Spain / Wendy Davies
Published Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 244 pages) : illustrations, maps
Contents Setting the scene -- San Pedro and Santa Comba : churches and their proprietors -- Dividing and sharing property -- The language of donation -- Donation to churches : purpose and expectations -- Gesmira, Recosinda, and Nuñez Sarracíniz : donation to lay persons -- Men and women -- Peasant society -- Rhetoric and action
Summary Acts of Giving examines issues surrounding donation-the giving of property, particularly landed property-in northern Spain during the tenth century. Exploring the place of giving within a broad complex of social and economic concerns, Wendy Davies highlights the centrality of Spain to some of the core themes of medieval European history. - ;Acts of Giving examines the issues surrounding donation - the giving of property, usually landed property - in northern 'Christian' Spain in the tenth century, when written texts became very plentiful, allowing us to glimpse the working of local society. We
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-235) and index
Notes English
Print version record
Subject Endowments -- Spain -- History -- To 1500
Gifts -- Spain -- History -- To 1500
Public welfare -- Spain -- History -- To 1500
HISTORY.
Endowments
Gifts
Manners and customs
Public welfare
Schenkingen.
Christendom.
SUBJECT Spain -- Social life and customs. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85126186
Spain -- Church history. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85126033
Subject Spain
Noord-Spanje.
Genre/Form Church history
History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2008297177
ISBN 0191536210
9780191536212
1281154008
9781281154002
9786611154004
6611154000