Converting the Land: Property, Legal Knowledge, and Documentary Practices in Toledo and the Ebro Valley, 1085–c. 1200 CE

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Medieval Encounters Pub Date : 2023-06-15 DOI:10.1163/15700674-12340166

Rodrigo García-Velasco

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Abstract This article examines the drafting of land contracts and the evolution of local property law in key regional centers of power during the transition from Islamic to Christian rule in eleventh- and twelfth-century Iberia. Through the analysis of a range of Arabic and Latin property land sales preserved in the ecclesiastical archives of Toledo and the Ebro valley, the following study looks for signs of potential legal and documentary diffusion taking place as a result of the Christian conquests of the Middle and Upper Marches of al-Andalus. The paper explores the relationship between property and its transfer, on the one hand, and the emerging post-conquest documentary cultures, on the other. It studies borrowings between Latin and Arabic land documents, some of which can be associated with Andalusī property and contract law. The article links this transfer of knowledge to the legal and economic interests of the religious institutions that preserved the Arabic documents, highlighting how new dioceses and monasteries reclaimed the rights and benefits associated with former mosques. Such findings are framed as part of the active preservation and engagement of local property knowledge and Islamicate documentary practices, and their recycling for the post-conquest management and reorganization of the land.

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土地转换:托莱多和埃布罗河谷的财产、法律知识和文献实践，1985 - c。公元1200年

本文考察了11世纪和12世纪伊比利亚从伊斯兰教统治向基督教统治过渡期间，主要地区权力中心土地契约的起草和地方财产法的演变。通过对托莱多和埃布罗河谷教会档案中保存的一系列阿拉伯和拉丁财产土地销售的分析，下面的研究寻找由于基督教征服安达卢斯中上游地区而发生的潜在法律和文献传播的迹象。本文一方面探讨了财产及其转移与新兴的征服后纪录片文化之间的关系。它研究了拉丁语和阿拉伯语土地文件之间的借用，其中一些可以与安达卢斯的财产和合同法联系起来。这篇文章将这种知识的转移与保存阿拉伯文献的宗教机构的法律和经济利益联系起来，强调了新的教区和修道院如何重新获得与前清真寺相关的权利和利益。这些发现被认为是积极保存和参与当地财产知识和伊斯兰文献实践的一部分，并将其用于征服后的管理和土地重组。

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