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Introduction
1. The ideology of sharing: apostolic community and ecclesiastical property in the early middle ages David Ganz
2. Teutsind, Witlaic and the history of Merovingian precaria Ian Wood
3. Eternal light and earthly needs: practical aspects of the development of Frankish immunities Paul Fouracre
4. The wary widow Janet Nelson
5. Lordship and justice in the early English kingdom: Oswaldslow revisited Patrick Wormald
6. Adding insult to injury: power, property, and immunities in early medieval Wales Wendy Davies
7. Property transactions and social relations between rulers, bishops and nobles in early eleventh-century Saxony: the evidence of the Vita Meinwerci Timothy Reuter
8. Monastic exemptions in tenth- and eleventh-century Byzantium Rosemary Morris
9. Property ownership and signorial power in twelfth-century Tuscany Chris Wickham
10. Conclusion: property and power in early medieval Europe
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