The Settlement of Disputes in Early Medieval EuropeThis is a collection of original essays on the settlement of disputes in the early middle ages, a subject of central importance for social and political history. Case material, from the evidence of charters, is used to reveal the realities of the settlement process in the behaviour and interactions of people instead of the prescriptive and idealised models of law codes and edicts. The book is not therefore a technical study of charters evidence. The