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Wednesday 12 April 2023 08.30 - 10.30
O-1 MID01 Actors, Codes and Strategies of Social Mediation in the Iberian Peninsula between the Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages
E43
Networks: Middle Ages , Social Inequality Chair: Iñaki Martín Viso
Organizers: Raquel Ezquerro Jiménez, Alicia Martín Rodríguez Discussant: Igor Santos Salazar
Gonzalo J. Escudero Manzano : Date et dabitur vobis. The Biblical Evocation as Mediation in the Gift Economy during the Hispanic Early Middle Ages
The diplomatic paradigm of the Middle Ages is the documents that allude to assignments or exchanges of properties. Although the ideological justification that involved these transactions was –in most cases– to obtain a redemptorist reward, currently they are interpreted as a mechanism to articulate different client networks between senders and ... (Show more)
The diplomatic paradigm of the Middle Ages is the documents that allude to assignments or exchanges of properties. Although the ideological justification that involved these transactions was –in most cases– to obtain a redemptorist reward, currently they are interpreted as a mechanism to articulate different client networks between senders and receivers. Meanwhile, some of these scriptures have biblical evocations that seem to condition donors to assign their goods to religious institutions. In this way, these allusions could serve as mediation in the gift economy, whose main beneficiary was the own promoters of these speeches. In my intervention, I will try to contextualise these testimonies for establish social or spatial dynamics. (Show less)

Raquel Ezquerro Jiménez : Mediating Actors and Tributary Networks in Visigothic Iberian Peninsula
The radical transmutation of the references based on the idiosyncrasy of classical Romanity, elemental support of the logics of the imperial universe, will bring with it the inclusion of new codes and engines that will define both the vital goals of specific individuals as the character of sociopolitical units that ... (Show more)
The radical transmutation of the references based on the idiosyncrasy of classical Romanity, elemental support of the logics of the imperial universe, will bring with it the inclusion of new codes and engines that will define both the vital goals of specific individuals as the character of sociopolitical units that will emerge in this particular breeding ground.
In this context, various actors will obtain the legitimate capacity to impose a burden or tax on a certain social group, which also implies the materialization and recognition of a condition of domination over a specific geographical space and of the men who already inhabit it. The concept of mediation will allow us to access the analysis of the actors that control these networks of resources at various scales, as well as the premises through which they access control of surplus production and legitimize their activities. The tributary circuits frame networks of sociability, explain the nature of the material and ideological ties between intervening agents and outline the conceptions of the world and knowable horizons of each of its strata.
Thus, the collection and payment of tax charges will be a fundamental component in the articulation and crystallization of dominance forces at all scales, a tax material whose importance lies not only in its hoarding but also in its investment as a means of achieving loyalty and status. (Show less)

Alicia Martín Rodríguez : Boni homines (et bonae muliebris)? Mediating Actors and Gender in Early Medieval Iberian Peninsula
The reference to boni homines taking part at some stage of judicial proceedings is quite common in early medieval Iberian charters. This has given rise to a broad debate on their figure in Spanish historiography, which in recent times has focused on the analysis of their role as mediating agents ... (Show more)
The reference to boni homines taking part at some stage of judicial proceedings is quite common in early medieval Iberian charters. This has given rise to a broad debate on their figure in Spanish historiography, which in recent times has focused on the analysis of their role as mediating agents in disputes. The term boni homines alludes to people with a not always clear social status, but with recognised public prestige because of age, fortune, birth or wisdom, which gives them a prominent position within the local communities and the capacity to actively intervene in judicial assemblies as witnesses or as mediators able to lead the parties in conflict to an agreement. The personal names of the individuals who are part of the boni homines group are not always quoted, but when they are listed, it can be seen that the vast majority of them are men; however, this does not prevent that in some cases women can also be found under that generic masculine plural label. In this respect, the present paper intends to appeal to this gender issue with the final objetive of contribute to the debate on the social status of these mediating actors. By a detailed analysis of the early medieval Iberian charters in which women appear as part of the boni homines, focusing on who these women were, the sources of their prestige and the type of conflicts in which they appear carrying out mediation tasks, we aim to understand more in depth firstly, how the individuals were selected to become part of that group, taking into account possible gender-related constraints. And secondly, how the performance of mediating functions contributes to create social differences within local communities. (Show less)



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