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does not still happen but i bet it was a big deal while it lasted form your community round that 1 c baraut ed les actes de consagracions d esglesies del bisbat d urgell segles ix xii in urgellia anuari d estudis històrics dels antics comtats de cerdanya urgell i pallars d andorra i la vall d aran vol 1 montserrat 1978 pp 11 182 doc 8 2 comments posted in catalonia seminary ii 1 there is nothing new under the sun posted on 22 august 2007 leave a comment another victor farias chapter in the riquer volume that liverpool were kind enough to spare me for a few weeks by the magic of inter library loan threw up some interesting concepts 1 in discussing parishes in tenth century catalonia he observes that from what we can tell largely from consecration acts and occasional boundary disputes 2 rural churches were centres of small districts even before these were organised as parishes but that these districts aren t conceived of as zones but rather as networks of belongings that is a map of connections rather than territories this was written in 1998 and although farias seems to be relatively unafraid to introduce new thinking undercover in what s a fairly discursive work with very few references which may not be ideal i presume it is at least reasonably established in the circles he moves in but as you may recall it was news to me in may this year when elizabeth zadora rio told it or something very like it to the institute of historical research in all the time i ve been working on catalonia i ve been conscious of a kind of ten year wall i find out about new work mainly through citation and it takes me a while to get hold of it and it s very unusual for something to come to my notice and into my hands that s less than ten years old and actually from catalonia i think i ve got a pretty good handle on the literature up to that point and better than anyone in europe i m likely to have to discuss it with but it all gets a bit sketchy inside a decade and i m always conscious that things could have changed quite a lot and i not know this time however it seems as if i m not the only one i guess this like the fact that royal charters are worth having to people even when they no longer really convey material rights even at time of award is something that is easier to see from a well documented fringe 1 v farias els inicis de l església catalana in b de riquer i permanyer ed història política societat i cultura dels països catalans volum 2 la formació de la societat feudal segles vi xii ed j m salrach i marès barcelona 1998 repr 2001 pp 154 159 161 167 169 173 at pp 167 171 172 2 the consecrations are all published in r ordeig i mata ed les dotalies de les esglésies de catalunya segles ix xii estudis historics diplomatari 1 5 vic 1993 1994 3 vols in 5 leave a comment posted in catalonia currently reading general medieval tagged consecrations networks parishes victor farias hero worship commerce in the dark ages posted on 16 august 2007 9 comments or i can just write about the middle ages and its historians of course one of the papers i have always remembered reading after i first came across it unlike so many which i ve subsequently re read made notes on and gone to my notes catalogue to find i d read before years ago was one of philip grierson s commerce in the dark ages which is available through jstor for those with access from that link 1 at the time it struck me as one of the clearest most common sensical pieces of historiography i d ever read and not that much has challenged it since then though the sense of understanding you get when reading someone who really does get his or her material is still wonderful when i through various routes wound up copy editing medieval european coinage 6 one of the exciting things about that was that i would thus be working on one of professor grierson s projects also as i rapidly discovered that he was somewhat less well these days as in less well at 95 than he had been at 90 when he was still producing scholarly work and than at 80 when he d still been beating undergraduates at squash one of my hopes was that we d be able to cheer him by seeing another of the volumes of this long series to press before too long in the end in fact there wasn t that much time he was already too ill to come into the department and i wound up checking the last few footnotes and references from his personal library with him not there because he d been installed in a nursing home for what would be the last two months of his life i never actually got to meet him and the book still isn t out but that s another story very recently i had cause to pick up the first of his volumes of collected papers dark age numismatics for another paper and was reminded afresh of the existence of commerce in the dark ages because it immediately precedes the one i needed in the volume so i read it again and then i decided i needed to encourage you to it is basically a warning to people who use coin evidence and other goods out of their place as evidence for trade and i can summarise the whole attack of the paper in one extract the most recent work on the economic life of the dark ages takes it for granted that trade and trade alone was responsible for the distribution of goods and coins in the centuries with which it deals such a view is altogether too narrow and prejudges too many issues there are other means whereby goods can pass from hand to hand means which must have played a more conspicuous part in the society of the dark ages than they would in more settled and advanced periods they can be characterized most briefly as theft and gift using theft to include all unilateral transfers of property which take place involuntarily plunder in war would be the commonest type and gift to cover all those which take place with the free consent of the donor somewhere between the two would be a varied series of payments such as ransoms compensations and fines while such payments as dowries the wages of mercenaries property carried to and fro by political exiles would all form part of the picture he went on to give an amplitude of examples of such alternative forms of transfer and finished by reckoning that really for a lot of the dark ages 2 those forms were a good deal more important than trade now since he wrote peter sawyer s work on the vikings has led to a fairly large scale revision of the way those particular alternative exchangers did their work and the whole raider trader controversy has opened up around them and this sort of evidence is key if only because such vast amounts of english coin is known from eleventh century scandinavia as to require explanation in one or other terms meanwhile there is some argument over the importance of long distance trade in the european economy as a whole 3 but that debate is at least half aware of philip s article in the viking studies world however the tendency to play down the violence and plunder has reached a level where this kind of caution can be forgotten and this is wrong myself i lean towards the idea that the vikings are best understood as unrestrained capitalists with political ambitions trying to amass the capital with which to mount hostile takeover bids whether those be of a homestead in norway or of a freshly carved kingdom in england or francia but even if you violently or non violently disagree with me if you re working on this stuff you have please to have an answer to philip ready one way or the other okay thankyou here endeth the lesson 1 p grierson commerce in the dark ages a critique of the evidence in transactions of the royal historical society 5 th series vol 9 london 1959 pp 123 140 repr in idem dark age numismatics variorum collected studies 96 london 1979 ii 2 i ve been laughed at for using that phrase but relatively speaking we do have far less knowledge of the centuries it describes than those around and i have no problem with it as such the joke about ended with the discovery of the candle lightbulb etc does get a bit tired though 3 referring to michael mccormick s origins of the european economy communications and commerce a d 300 900 cambridge 2003 which sees such structures as fundamental to the development of the later economic orientations of europe and chris wickham s framing the early middle ages europe and the mediterranean 400 800 oxford 2006 which argues among a great many other things that such trade was always only marginal in the period and of no long term effect beyond the aristocratic level with that one might argue and i have with him indeed that effects on the people who represent society s controlling interests are not to be discounted and with mccormick s thesis there are a whole range of arguments mostly expressed in a debate with him in early medieval europe vol 12 no 3 oxford 2005 pp 259 324 linked up above wickham has read and cites dark age numismatics however and mccormick may though i have no copy to hand to check they are at least aware 9 comments posted in archaeology currently reading general medieval numismatics tagged archaeology philip grierson metablog posted on 15 august 2007 11 comments i don t understand the way people come to this blog wordpress are remarkably informative but their information confuses me sometimes the process is obvious richard nokes kindly links one of my posts i get a shedload more readers this i understand i don t know how many because i guess most people are reading through feeds and wordpress only counts actual direct hits but i see the effect on that i guess that means in fact that i will see more effect from links than from anything else but that that doesn t necessarily relate to regular readership but sometimes the information i get makes no damn sense at all the day that i drafted this apparently i got fourteen hits from the blogroll beside an old worthy and sane but uncommented and ancient post of another damned medievalist surely this is someone s browser going mad and not real information it goes on the same day more people read the well hidden sex and medievalists post than any other but this seems to be because hits on the actual front page which linked to it at the time of drafting aren t separately recorded so the click through shows up as most important even though it wasn t really because more people read what s up front certainly only one of the search engine strings wordpress tells me of would have led there and mainly what those tell me comfortingly but uselessly is that my little first crusade paper is something people want to find this is useless because it wasn t actually a blog post so although it s nice to know it s being useful without reorienting my research by some way it s not something i can develop further for the readership s benefit so what this means is that actually although wordpress is trying very hard i don t really know what people are reading and what they re skimming what brings you here and what sends you away unless you comment now this blog was originally set up as self publicity after a suggestion at a party by someone who seemed to believe that the blogosphere was the new stock market this is why for example i don t mention rejections or lack of progress in it i get them as does everyone at my level i think but i don t necessarily want prospective employers or rivals to find this out easily no i don t really have any rivals fair enough anyway but even such readership as i do have makes me wonder whether i shouldn t be bearing them in mind as well currently i just spout whatever i m currently finding interesting into draft posts and then stick them up when the action seems a bit quiet webwise this is also good for last minute reconsideration of exactly where i m hyperlinking to or whom i m arguing with i m finding but is that floating your boats i therefore tentatively invite feedback from anyone that might wish to give it for example i have categories set up many of which i hardly use for currently reading mini reviews and outraged spluttering general medieval i e this is not really my area anglo saxons which only used to be my area carolingians catalonia charters crusades i keep forgetting this is there england i do live there feudalism islamic crescent picts spain humour for want of a better word next paper is due advertisements and panic now working on doesn t everyone use the web as a sounding board nowadays and uncategorized and these apart from the last are sort of the areas that i know my way in a bit some more than a bit if you have no other feedback let me ask you would you like to see more use of any of these and if so which or some other if there seems to be some definite movement i ll try and come up with a que sais je kind of post or two or some recent relevance if not i ll assume things are probably ok as they re going but thankyou in advance if you do have feedback to add also in a metablog kind of way hey carolingian nice to meet you but dammit next time i buy the lunch all right 11 comments posted in uncategorized feudal transformations iv posted on 14 august 2007 leave a comment more josep maría salrach this time from the older procés de feudalització where i find him observing that both before the feudal revolution say 950 and after it say 1070 the count is in charge of the nobility who run his castles for him although there is as you will have observed from the previous post something of a blip between times the difference is in the way the link works beforehand the count is the representative of the public power the power enshrined in the law as the princeps delegated from the king and the nobles are agents whose title is constituted by their office that he gives them afterwards the relation is more two way an agreed sharing of power that leaves the noble the count s vassal actually this means that the count has more power over the vassal as the vassal owes not just the castle if requested but also military service and most importantly homage which has nasty consequences if broken whereas before the count s power was more or less restricted to the taking back of the officer s honores if he even could but the exchange is that the count has to give away more power leaving the vassal more or less independent in a territory that had once paid the count dues and renders which are now going to the vassal both sides give more to get more now of course some might say that the carolingians imposed universal oaths of homage with theoretical penalties of death for transgressors the local nobles were always more or less invulnerable in their heartlands unless ousted by force and that generally less changes here than salrach implies except in the field of theory and rules but as ever i m interested to see the change described so clearly the big problem remains that we are looking at a lot of changes altogether which are not necessarily associated by nature some day i ll write it some day leave a comment posted in catalonia 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