tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19833734.post8682751838522260955..comments2024-02-22T19:21:40.330-05:00Comments on Muhlberger's World History: In Marca Hispanica -- the seriesUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19833734.post-10814255848149023542008-04-13T12:06:00.000-04:002008-04-13T12:06:00.000-04:00Thanks so much for going to this effort to put thi...Thanks so much for going to this effort to put this stuff forward to others; I'm glad you're enjoying it too. In return the least I can do is answer your question: I was out in Catalonia between 5 & 14 March this year, and I hope to be out there again later in June to visit three castle/monastery sites on unfortunately separated hilltops. Hopefully then the weather will be a bit more conducive to attractive photographs as well.<BR/><BR/>One thing I might add is that the joy of the evidence I'm using is that it's not always important people. It's always hard to prove that someone's not much richer than you see them in one or two charters, but a few places turn up enough density of documentation, and show the same people over and over again, often dealing in tiny fractions of estates and plots of land, or even just in goods, that you can be pretty sure you're seeing everyone and therefore reading peasants' documents. Rich peasants perhaps, if they're able to trade land at all, but still peasants. And sometimes it's even odder than that; my favourite example is a charter preserved at Vic, in which one man swears to another that he will not prosecute the latter one for stealing loads of bread and wine from him when they used to share a house. I can't explain why we still have this document, but this isn't counts and kings— this is Laurel and Hardy! That one at least has been written about somewhere people can get at, in <A HREF="http://www.ucm.es/BUCM/compludoc/W/10502/00387134_1.htm" REL="nofollow">an article by Adam Kosto in Speculum 2005</A>. Worth a look if people find what I have to say interesting.<BR/><BR/>Thanks again for the links, meanwhile, and also the appreciation!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com