par Devroey, Jean-Pierre
Référence Certificare le disuguaglianze. Certifying Inequalities (12-13 Dicembre 2019: Torino, Fondazione Einaudi, Università degli Studi di Torino)
Publication Non publié, 2019-12-12
Communication à un colloque
Résumé : The paper addresses the problem of the legal and social status of individuals through inquiry procedures, denominations and trials affecting the status, dependence and mobility of peasants in the early Middle Ages rural society. The main sources are land inventories, forms, instructions from capitulars and a small number of procedures and judgments concerning the legal status of dependent farmers. Beyond the legal distinction between free and non-free and the possibility of emancipation, which it inherited from antiquity, Western society multiplied the denominations of persons in the eighth and ninth centuries, before evolving towards a certain undifferentiation of the general vocabulary of dependence, and the emergence of new markers of individual status.