Lines Traced on Mountains: Delimitations and Territorial Disputes in the Western Pyrenees between the Ninth and Eleventh Centuries

Juan José Larrea

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Chapter 12 Lines Traced on Mountains: Delimitations and Territorial Disputes in the Western Pyrenees between the Ninth and Eleventh Centuries

In: Records and Processes of Dispute Settlement in Early Medieval Societies

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Pages:: 338–363

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004683006_014

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Abstract

The oldest archival records from Navarre and Aragon come from several monasteries that were founded in the ninth century in the Pyrenean valleys. These documents contain a considerable amount of information about how boundaries were drawn, as well as about the settlement of disputes and other land transactions between the monks and peasants. This chapter focuses, firstly, on the role played by dispute settlement in building local political structures and on the legitimating discourse for such structures constructed by the monks. Secondly, it analyses the economic and spatial logic of these conflicts and suggests that two main contending principles lie behind the mechanisms of land appropriation that are deployed in these disputes: appropriation by drawing boundaries and appropriation through the actual use of the land. Finally, it considers the social background of each of these mechanisms and adds some comparative remarks about other regions in western Europe during the early Middle Ages.

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Records and Processes of Dispute Settlement in Early Medieval Societies

Iberia and Beyond

Series: Medieval Law and Its Practice, Volume: 41

Cover Records and Processes of Dispute Settlement in Early Medieval Societies

E-Book ISBN:: 9789004683006

Publisher:: Brill

Print Publication Date:: 13 Nov 2023

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- Literature and Cultural Studies
  - Criticism & Theory
  - Cultural History

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Part 1 Surveying the Corpus of Iberian Dispute Records, 800–1100

Part 2 Recording Disputes: The Textual Construction of Judicial Process

Part 3 Framing Disputes: Judicial Authorities and Social Order

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Chapter 12 Lines Traced on Mountains: Delimitations and Territorial Disputes in the Western Pyrenees between the Ninth and Eleventh Centuries

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