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Barbara H. Rosenwein, « Property transfers and the Church, eighth to eleventh centuries. An overview », Mélanges de l'école française de Rome, ID : 10.3406/mefr.1999.3716
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Barbara H. Rosenwein, Property transfers and the Church, eighth to eleventh centuries. An overview, p. 563-575. An overview of current studies of property transfers and the Church, above of all the studies in this volume, reveals new recognition of the blurred distinctions between «family» and «church», «transfer» and «retention». Certain constraints in research are necessitated by the sources themselves (monastic charters, in the main), which are scattered in time and place. However, some constraints are lifted as scholars recognize the disjunction between the ideal types of documents postulated by jurists and the real (and bewilderingly varied) types of documents created on the ground. The predominance of one kind of charter (the precaria) does not mean than there was only one sort of property transfer, for the precaria had different meanings in different contexts. The chief lesson here is the creativity as well as opportunism of modes of property transfer during the period.