This book explores social cohesion in rural settlements in western Europe from 700–1050, asking to what extent settlements, or districts, constituted units of social organisation. It focuses on the interactions, interconnections and networks of people who lived side by side – neighbours. Drawing evidence from most of the current western European countries, the book plots and interrogates the very different practices of this wide range of regions in a systematically comparative framework. I...

Cet ouvrage rassemble des études centrées sur l'histoire agraire et économique du Moyen Âge, avec une focalisation particulière sur les stratégies et la culture matérielle des familles paysannes. Elles sont dédiées à Jean-Pierre Devroey, un des spécialistes mondiaux de l'histoire agraire du Haut Moyen Âge. Professeur à l'Université Libre de Bruxelles, il a gagné une réputation internationale en brisant les frontières historiographiques traditionnelles et en mettant entre autres au cœur de ...

Philosophical Mysticism delivers a spiritual framework based entirely on philosophy; while making use of and forwarding a new theory of mind. By following the development, nature, and influence of Mind in all its forms—past, present, and future—the book argues that we can build a spiritual base. Such a base can function as a replacement for religion or as a means to fill a spiritual void. This has always been the ultimate goal of philosophy. The book offers a path to achieve this goal, or ...