Land, ownership, and power in post-Roman Britain and Gaul

当西罗马帝国崩溃时，“野蛮”民族进入其以前的领土并建立了继承国。这些政体往往表现出明显的相似之处，但英国却明显不同。这篇论文将考虑罗马财产观念在土地保有权变化中的作用，这种变化导致了后罗马时代的英国和高卢从集体“部落”土地所有权到个人贵族所有权的转变。它将考察以宪章形式出现的文字是否在这一变化中起了作用，如果是的话，国王、神职人员和贵族是否有意识地利用这一点来增加他们的权威。此外，该项目将结合对盎格鲁-撒克逊和法兰克定居考古学的创新比较分析来使用特许状，以确定共享的罗马遗产和“野蛮人”起源如何以不同的方式结合起来，创造新的文化身份和政治制度，支撑中世纪欧洲历史的发展。

When the Western Roman empire collapsed, 'barbarian' peoples moved into its former territories and established successor states. These polities tended to exhibit marked similarities, but Britain was noticeably different. This thesis will consider the role of Roman ideas of property in the tenurial changes which produced a shift from collective 'tribal' land to individual aristocratic ownership in post-Roman Britain and Gaul. It will examine whether writing, in the form of charters, was instrumental in this change, and, if so, whether kings, clerics, and aristocrats consciously used this to increase their authority. Furthermore, the project will contextualise the use of charters with an innovative comparative analysis of Anglo-Saxon and Frankish settlement archaeology in order to determine how a shared Roman inheritance and 'barbarian' origins combined in different ways to create new cultural identities and political systems underpinning the developments of medieval European history.