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Annulling Inherited Contracts: Legal Possibilities and Strategies at Early Medieval Italian Monasteries * by Maya Maskarinec is a Arts and Humanities article available to read on EtoBox.

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The property belonging to an early medieval monastery ( or other ecclesiastical institution ) was theoretically inalienable, yet there developed numerous types of contracts by which an abbot ( or other rector of a church ) could grant individuals the right to use church property 1 . Most common in early medieval Italy were precaria ( which first appear in the charter evidence of the 9 th century and disappear again in the course of the 11 th century ) and livelli ( which become prevalent in the course of the 10 th century ) 2 . The terms of these contracts varied over time and place, and individually from \* Versions of this paper were presented at Karl Ubl's and Étienne Doublier's Oberseminar at the Uni- versity of Cologne and at Stefan Esders' Forschungskolloquium at the Freie Universität Berlin. I am grateful to the organizers and participants for their helpful feedback. The research was supported by an Alexander von Humboldt-Forschungsstipendium.

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Author
Maya Maskarinec
Publisher
Walter de Gruyter GmbH
Published
2022
Language
EN
Field
Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)

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