Making Early Medieval Societies: Conflict and Belonging in the Latin West, 300–1200

Preface and acknowledgements ix
List of contributors xii
Introduction: making early medieval societies 1
Conrad Leyser
1. Property, power, and conflict: re-thinking the Constantinian revolution 16
Kate Cooper
2. Playing with fire: conflicting bishops in late Roman Spain and Gaul 33
David Natal and Jamie Wood
3. After Rome, before Francia: religion, ethnicity, and identity politics in Gregory of Tours\' \"Ten Books of
Histories\" 58
Helmut Reimitz
4. \"To mistake gold for wealth\": the Venerable Bede and the fate of Northumbria 80
Martin J. Ryan
5. The incidence of rebellion in the early medieval West 104
Paul Fouracre
6. Disputes and documents in early medieval Italy 125
Marios Costambeys
7. Divorce and remarriage between late antiquity and the early middle ages: canon law and conflict resolution 155
Riccardo Bof and Conrad Leyser
8. The memory of Gregory the Great and the making of Latin Europe, 600–1000 181
Conrad Leyser
9. The weight of opinion: religion and the people of Europe from the tenth to the twelfth century 202
R. I. Moore
10. \"The peace in the feud\" revisited: feuds in the peace in medieval European feuds 220
Stephen D. White
Bibliography 244
Index 279