Neighbours and strangers investigates social cohesion in rural settlements in western Europe from 700 to 1050, asking to what extent settlements, or districts, constituted units of social organisation.
The book offers a new approach to well-known problems of the Early Middle Ages by bringing together expertise in different regions from different national tradition.
It focuses on the interactions, interconnections and networks of people who lived side by side - neighbours.
Neighbours and strangers investigates social cohesion in rural settlements in western Europe from 700 to 1050, asking to what extent settlements, or districts, constituted units of social organisation