RT Book,_Section
T1 Out of the village. Short-distance exile and local communities in Iberia (c. 700–1200)
A1 Lorenzo Rodríguez, Abel de
A2 Sarti, Laury
A2 Trott zu Solz, Helene von
K1 Exile
K1 Homicide
K1 Justice
K1 Iberia
K1 Early Middle Ages
AB Mobility can be analysed from many perspectives. One promising method is lookingat push factors, namely the reasons why people moved from one place to another.1Among these factors was enforced mobility, owing to reasons of political persecution,enmity, or banishment. Involuntary exile was considered a damnation or condemna-tion (exilium: damnationem)2because it broke with social and material relations byisolating specific individuals or groups. When speaking of exile–be it outside thehouse, manor, village, city, or the home kingdom–sources rarely specify the distanceor duration of travel imposed on an individual separated from home, since the mainpurpose of this act was to make people invisible by severing ties with their family,friends and social networks, thereby ensuring a state of loneliness. Thus, exile was aform of enforced mobility generally implemented as a social punishment for commit-ting a crime, mostly homicide or high treason (or both). There exists little informationabout relevant cases in sources related to early medieval local societies in Iberia. Those few valuable sources remaining include charters and other documents relatedto activities executed inside local societies and by individuals or families in the north-western part of the peninsula. In opposition to chronicles and laws, which have al-ready been studied by focussing on upper-class elites, the intention of the present investigation is to examine the exiles of middle- and lower-class people and what this experience meant for them
PB De Gruyter Brill
SN 9783111166698
YR 2025
FD 2025-04-21
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10347/45745
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10347/45745
LA eng
NO Lorenzo Rodríguez, Abel de. «6 Out of the village. Short-distance exile and local communities in Iberia (c. 700–1200)». Mobility in the Early Middle Ages, and Beyond – Mobilität im Frühmittelalter und darüber hinaus, 2025, pp. 81-100, https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111166698-006.
NO Contrato postdoctoral “E-moción. Dinámicas de exilios e desprazamentos forzados (Galicia,  Iberia  e  Europa,  séculos  VIII-XIII)”,  (ED481B-2024-076), financiados  ambos  por  Xunta  de Galicia Plan Galego de Investigación e Innovación, Axencia Galega de Innovación (GAIN)
NO Proyecto PADEX, Ref. PID2023-146374NA-I00, financiado por el Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades, MICIU/AEI/10.13039/501100011033/
DS Minerva
RD 22 abr 2026