著者

足立 孝

出版者

公益財団法人史学会

雑誌

史學雜誌 (ISSN:00182478)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.110, no.1, pp.42-69, 2001-01-20

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In eleventh century Aragon, the banquet called aliala used to be held by buyers at the confirmation of land sale charters.The author intends to reveal a form of social relationship between free peasants and great lords, by investigating the role of aliala and the personal organization of aliala participants who consisted of sellers, firmes and testes. It is unusual for the early medieval Iberian Peninsula that in Aragon two-thirds of land sale charters were written on the side of buyers, most of whom were monasteries or secular lords.From a diplomatic point of view, it is suggested that their scribes wrote such charters post facto in order to register acquired lands systematically, extracting the primary part of charters drawn up by sellers at the conclusion of contracts.Aliala was, indeed, confirmation that strengthened the judicial validity of charters, and its actual effects covered both of them.Aliala participants consisted of the inhabitants from villages connected with monasteries or secular lords, and the requirement to participate in aliala was conditioned neither by their juridical status nor socioeconomic position.Aliala that publicly secured judicial validity of charters was based upon personal relationships between lords and free peasant, while, their relationships were more and more strengthened by participation in aliala. This case is thought to be useful in reexamining the well-known paradigm of mutation de l'an mil, in which lords and free peasants are supposed not to have coexisted in the eleventh century.