Wendy Davies

Sam ha muerto. El mar se llevó sus secretos y ahora solo quedan mentiras y esa sensación de ahogo que todo lo envuelve. Samantha no es ella misma. Jay no sabe lo que hizo. Todos tienen algo que ocultar y cada día que pasa es una cuenta atrás. Mañana quizá sea tarde. Premio Gran Angular 2017 (Fuente: es.literaturasm.com).

Siempre será diciembre

¿Se puede amar lo diferente? Una novela enternecedora, mágica, un amor puro que te conquistará. ¿Alguna vez te has sentido solo a pesar de estar rodeado de gente? ¿Tan diferente como un gato en un mundo de perros? Rin se siente así todo el tiempo. Como si viviera en un mundo al que no pertenece, como si los demás hablaran en un idioma que él no es capaz de comprender y como si fingir fuera la única manera de encajar. Por eso, a veces, sin moverse del sitio, viaja a su pequeño planeta donde todo es circular, tan diminuto como el asteroide B612 e igual de recóndito. Allí todo es como debería ser, no necesita a nadie más. Cuando Via irrumpe en su planeta llevada por el karma, arrasando con toda lógica y estabilidad, Rin piensa que se trata de un huracán de categoría cinco. Pero lo que Rin no sabe es que de laspeores catástrofes pueden surgir los mejores milagros. Y es que a veces no es necesario ser etiquetado de diferente para serlo. Dos piezas destinadas a no encajar, de puzles distintos, acabarán formando una imagen nueva donde la única regla es que no hay reglas. Instant karma es un libro tierno que toma como referente El Principito para hablar de lo que realmente importa, aquello que es invisible a los ojos, y que explora la diferencia como punto de partida para descubrir el amor.

Instant Karma

La historia de una niña que no podía escuchar las palabras

Hope

This readable and authoritative volume covers the history of the Britain and Ireland between 800 and 1100 A.D. Seven chapters contributed by a team of experts cover key of this period, such as the Vikings, monarchies and other political structures, relationships between lords and labourers, developments in trade and urbanization, the christianization of society, the functions and dissemination of writing and scholarship, and relationships between Britain, Ireland and the Mediterranean civilizations to the south. To create a fully-rounded overview of the period, Wendy Davies, the volume's editor, has provided an Introduction giving a geographical context to the chapter narratives and discussing the available source material, and a Conclusion which pulls together the themes and currents running through the individual chapters.

From the Vikings to the Normans

Bernhard Zeller

Steffen Patzold

Charles West

Francesca Tinti

Thomas Kohl

Carine van Rhijn

Marco Stoffella

Nicolas Schroeder

Miriam Czock

This book explores social cohesion in rural settlements in western Europe from 700–1050, asking to what extent settlements, or districts, constituted units of social organisation. It focuses on the interactions, interconnections and networks of people who lived side by side – neighbours. Drawing evidence from most of the current western European countries, the book plots and interrogates the very different practices of this wide range of regions in a systematically comparative framework. It considers the variety of local responses to the supra-local agents of landlords and rulers and the impact, such as it was, of those agents on the small-scale residential group. It also assesses the impact on local societies of the values, instructions and demands of the wider literate world of Christianity, as delivered by local priests.

Local societies in early medieval Europe

Neighbours and strangers

This volume focuses on Wendy Davies's work on early medieval Breton texts and their implications. Beginning with core analyses of the Redon and Landévennec cartularies, it continues with papers that tease out some of the key social implications of the 9th-century Redon material - on the nature of political power, on rural communities, on the settlement of disputes, and on transmission of property. While the Redon charters have long been known as a source of fundamental importance for Breton history, the author's database (established in the 1980s) allowed much greater understanding of the role of individuals - at all social levels, and particularly peasant level - than had previously been possible. Attention to the detail of the east Breton past also includes papers on some of the results of her fieldwork, on building stone in particular. Early medieval Brittany is not merely interesting in itself (and it is certainly not some Celtic backwater): Breton evidence can usefully be differentiated from the evidence of other Celtic areas and has a significant role in wider issues of European history. As well as papers on the familiar themes of kingship, rulership, cult sites and cemeteries, the final section highlights the distinctive quality of the Breton evidence for the protection of sacred and personal space, for slavery and serfdom and for village-level courts.

Texts and Societies

Brittany in the Early Middle Ages

Power in Wales in the early middle ages was inextricably tied to political authority. This book analyzes the nature of that power and its relationships, both in theory and in practice. Confronting challenging questions relating to definitions and consequences of military control, alien settlement, land ownership, and political domination, Davies analyzes the impact and nature of English, Irish, and Viking contacts with the Welsh, and assesses their significance for the long-term development of Wales.

Patterns of Power in Early Wales

Colin Renfrew

Barry W. Cunliffe

Professor of European Archaeology Institute of Archaeology Oxford Fellow Barry Cunliffe

Disney Professor of Archaeology Cambridge University Fellow Colin Renfrew

Professor of History and Pro-Provost University College London Fellow Wendy Davies

Twenty-six leading scholars from around the world have come together to celebrate the strengths, the energies and the sheer intellectual excitement of their discipline. They unashamedly proclaim that over the last hundred years archaeology has transformed itself from a genteel antiquarianpursuit, deeply rooted in the classical tradition, to a rigorous and demanding discipline, spanning the humanities and the sciences, yet at the same time one widely accessible to the public at large. The contributors show how our understanding of the past has changed, reveal the exciting ideas under current debate, and offer their visions of the future.The result is a remarkable overview of world archaeology, focusing on new and unexpected themes at the cutting edge of the discipline.

The Widening Debate

Archaeology

Paul Fouracre

"This is a collection of original essays on gift in the early Middle Ages, from Anglo-Saxon England to the Islamic world. Focusing on the languages of gift, the essays reveal how early medieval people visualized and thought about gift, and how they distinguished between the giving of gifts and other forms of social, economic, political and religious exchange. The same team, largely, that produced the widely cited The Settlement of Disputes in Early Medieval Europe (Cambridge University Press, 1986) has again collaborated in a collective effort that harnesses individual expertise in order to draw from the sources a deeper understanding of the early Middle Ages by looking at real cases, that is at real people, whether peasant or emperor. The culture of medieval gift has often been treated as archaic and exotic; in this book, by contrast, we see people going about their lives in individual, down-to-earth and sometimes familiar ways"--

The Languages of Gift in the Early Middle Ages

The Llandaff Charters

A collection of papers in English by one of the foremost historians of the social and economic structure of medieval rural communities, who here examines local societies in rural northern Spain and Portugal in the early middle ages. Principal themes are scribal practice and the analysis of charter texts; gift, sale and wealth; justice and judicial procedures. Always with a concern for personal relationships and interactions, for mobility, for decision-making and for practice, a sense of land and landscape runs throughout. The Spanish and Portuguese experience has seemed irrelevant to the great debates of early medieval European history that occupy historians. But Spain and Portugal shared the late Roman heritage which influenced much of western Europe in the early middle ages, and by the tenth century records and practice in Christian Iberia still shared features with the Carolingian world. This book offers a substantial corpus of Iberian evidence to set beside Frankish, Italian, English and Scandinavian material and thereby makes it possible for northern Iberia to play a part in these great debates of medieval European history. (CS1084).

Christian Spain and Portugal in the Early Middle Ages

The Village Community in Early Medieval Brittany

Small Worlds

Farm Workers in South Africa

We Cry for Our Land

This volume focuses on Wendy Davies's work on early medieval Breton texts and their implications. Beginning with core analyses of the Redon and Landévennec cartularies, it continues with papers that tease out some of the key social implications of the 9th-century Redon material - on the nature of political power, on rural communities, on the settlement of disputes, and on transmission of property. Further studies show how Breton evidence can usefully be differentiated from the evidence of other Celtic areas and that it has significance for wider issues of European history. As well as papers on kingship, rulership, cult sites and cemeteries, the final section highlights the distinctive quality of the Breton evidence for the protection of sacred and personal space, for slavery and serfdom and for village-level courts.

Prof Wendy Davies *Nfa*

Dr Grenville Astill

Grenville Astill

First Published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

From The Romans To The Second Empire In Eastern Brittany

A Breton Landscape

This 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 geographical range across Europe is unusually wide, which allows comparison across differing societies. Frankish material is inevitably prominent, but the contributors have sought to integrate Celtic, Greek, Italian and Spanish material into the mainstream of the subject. Above all, the book aims to 'demystify' the study of early medieval law, and to present a radical reappraisal of established assumptions about law and society.

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